How to get rid of woodlice in the house and the apartment: the most effective and popular chemicals

Few people know that crawling around the house lice belong to the order of crustaceans. In the wild, they live in damp places under stumps, decks and stones. At night they leave their hiding places and feed on a variety of microorganisms and plants. The apartment is most often get lice from the cellars or in conjunction with the ground and live under baseboards, in the toilet, bathroom or pots with flowers.

How are lice

The insect has an oval body, the contour of which there are notches. Protection it is composed of segments of black dense shell. Some lice differ interesting pattern on the shell. Front mustache in size equal to the length of the calf.

Eating insects prefer potted flowers, moss, wood, vegetables begun to rot. The soil in the pots will be their favorite place of residence, which should be considered when dealing with woodlice.

These insects, unlike cockroaches infection on his legs not spread. But proximity to woodlice hardly anyone will please. In search of food they are easy to get on the table and crawl on the products.

Where are the Insects

In multi-storey buildings insects live in attics and basements, where, and move into the apartment. From one room to another they are moving through the cracks and vents. But most susceptible woodlice attacked the owners of private houses. The insects crawl home with gardens. They are easy to crawl stairs and thresholds, settling in a humid place premises. Their favorite place on the site is a pile of leaves, debris, planks.

Seeing the apartment one pill bugs, you can easily find them cluster. Dwell they can:

• for pipes and under sinks;
• in a bin or near it;
• kitchen cabinets;
• under the rugs in the kitchen, in a closet or a bathroom;
• in a cage with birds or rodents;
• potted flowers.

How to withdraw from the flat woodlice

If lice infested house or in an apartment, then get rid of them to be integrated:

1. To block the penetration of pestsBy closing the ventilation openings in the gaps of pipes and various slits.
2. Create in-house unfavorable conditions. To do this, remove the humidity, check all plumbing for leaks and dry room.
3. As far as possible from the apartment not some time you need to move the flowers in pots. If you do not succeed, then the trays and window sills after each watering wiped dry. A primer is necessary to change the old to the new.
4. Use special tools to kill pests.
5. If possible, carry out cleaning in the basement and destroy insects in it. Otherwise, the struggle in the apartment with woodlice will be useless.

chemical agents 

Get rid of pests in the house, you can use special means:

1. aerosols with insecticides. They should be used, if the room has not much infected. Withdraw living in the bathroom or toilet insects can simply sprinkle them spray. The most effective of these are considered - dichlorvos, Raptor, Combat Supersprey, clean house, and others. Like drugs to get rid of insects, pill bugs in a private house or the basement will not work. These agents have a prolonged effect, and need too many cans.
2. concentrates for the preparation of solutions. From concentrated insecticides, a solution that is poured into the respirator and is used to combat the woodlice in the apartment. The most famous products - Tetriks, Taran Tsifoks, Cucaracha, Ksulat Micro, Delta Zone. Some of these tools use the disinfestation services. Adapted for domestic use microencapsulated means with prolonged action: Lambda Zone Delta area, Ksulat Micro. They are very effective and long acting and have little or no odor.
3. Powders or dusts with insecticides just scattered around the premises. They should pour for baseboards, in cracks and gaps, under windowsills, around trash cans and other potential places where woodlice. The most commonly used powder Neopin, Riapan, Fenaksin dust and clean the house. Effectively combats pest boric acid in powder form. However, powdered insecticides mainly used as auxiliary means, since lice can not crawl on the floor.
4. Crayons and pencils Titanic, Masha and others will help to bring the insects in the house. Woodlice insecticides are afraid, and pencils can be applied to a means not only to horizontal but also on vertical surfaces. As well as crayons on the perimeter ventilation and gaps around barriers are applied, and the pests to enter the apartment can not. When crossing the line, they die after a while.
5. gelsWhich are designed by ants and cockroaches, may be used for the destruction of woodlice. On the effectiveness of these funds can be compared with crayons. Using gels easily smear barrier line. However, if the pests have infested the house, it will help these funds only after some time.
6. Poison baits help bring any insects who love food with human table. The composition lures often include egg yolk and boric acid or an insecticidal formulation. More effective bait - Delta area, Lambda zone Ksulat Micro.
7. sticky traps more suitable for prevention than for destruction woodlice. They are suitable only for the capture of individual insects. Demand Raptor traps Agrus, Global.

The use of any of the insecticides requires the study guide and the application of personal protective equipment.

When selecting insecticides, the main thing is the safety of the person. Do not buy a powerful drug, after the action is all the insects will be killed for sure. Their use may be poisonous, and in treated by such means room to humans and animals for a long time to live is not safe. It is best to use a combination of several drugs that are virtually harmless to humans and have no odor. It is recommended to use high-speed sprays and aerosols and gels pencils, action is slow but long.

Before applying insecticides it is necessary to block the penetration of woodlice in the apartment. Without this, their use is meaningless.

Folk remedies

Destroy pests can be safe for human resources:

1. Boric acid - this is known means for the control of insects. It can be purchased in every pharmacy. The powder falls apart on the perimeter of the apartment. From the boric acid solution can be done (for 10 l of water 10 g of agent) and spray them infected site. Effective balls of semolina, eggs and powder. They are laid out where the high probability of congestion pests.
2. Soda, tobacco and red pepper used to prepare the solution, which sprayed the room. Preparing a solution of a liter of water and one-half teaspoon of each ingredient. Eight hours later washed off means a solution of water and chlorinated substances.
3. Dissolved in water, vinegar its smell will scare away insects. Are sprayed with a solution of their habitats.
4. Potatoes It can be used as a trap. To do this, cut a few holes in the vegetable. The smell of sap becomes bait and crustaceans will climb inside the tuber, along with which of them will need to get rid of.
5. The bathroom or toilet trap can be arranged out of birch twigs, leaving them in a room for the night. Zapolzshih insects leaves will need to shake off the morning in any capacity or in a fire.
6. Kvass It is an effective tool in the fight against pests. Used powder from which prepares a solution. One part of the powder is diluted with five parts of water and used for the treatment of contaminated sites.
7. solution of bleach (1 liter of water - 50 g agent) washing all surfaces, including vertical.
8. Effective against woodlice alum. Dissolved in 0.5 L of water 100 g of the alum solution obtained destroy pests by treating their habitats.
9. Crustaceans can be derived with salt, scattering it under baseboards, in the gap, the room corners.
10. The flooded quicklime It helps to overcome pests. To destroy the wood lice, it is poured into an open dish and leave the room for two or three days. People at this time can not be flat, because the lime solution and vapors are poisonous for humans. Such means are mainly in cottages and in the cellars. It should be used cautiously. Of skin or mucous solution of quicklime may cause a burn.

In addition to the above means, it is possible to use steam cleaner or hair dryer. Lice die quickly from the effects of hot air or steam. If the insect is within reach, it is easy to eliminate air from a temperature higher than + 70C.

When properly integrated approach and the application of effective tools you can quickly deduce woodlice from the apartment. And so they again not settled in your home, you should create unfavorable conditions for these insects.