Booklice in new build

[Emmyyyx]

We moved into a new build January 20 and over the last week found booklice all in the main bathroom and then my sons room which is the room next to it!

Went on a hunt around the house and found multiple in all rooms - I’m killing loads every day, hoovering all the time, bleached all skirting and bathrooms!

It’s making me ill as I’m constantly on the hunt for them and constantly crying about it (I am pregnant so hormones won’t be helping)

Bought 2 plug in dehumidifiers and hygrometers and loads of disposable dehumidifiers and whacked the heating up the last 3 days but it’s not something I can do constantly!

I know they are harmless but it’s the fact they breed so quickly I feel if I’m not constantly on the go getting rid of them then my house will be over run.

Anyone had these in a new build and managed to get rid of them??? My partner tells me when the house dries out they will go but I can’t cope with another year of this!!

In the uk we don’t have a lot of those ingredients in sprays
those that we do don’t contain those I don’t think
Screwfix spray doesn’t have those

i had pest control sprayed three times already and they still here. The main point is to be able to find a good company who will be willing to spot treat the cracks and not just the baseboards. Which what my pest control company refuses to do. They just come and spray the baseboards and leave. Tht can only kill the visible one and cannot fully eliminate all of them because they are hiding and breeding in the cracks. If you can purchase useful insecticide , you can do it yourself. But not in Canada, theres no way for us to purchase them and it's illegal to do it ourselves. But if your doing it yourself make sure you dont over sprayed it, because everytime you spray, you are basically adding more moist to the area you spray. Which what they live on. Try to get something that will continue working for like 2-3 months.

We have easy access to every spray here and there is nothing illegal. The active ingredients of the drugs are very important. I was able to learn the active ingredients with the help of a professor, and I saw that it also works on insects. It significantly reduces their numbers, but of course it does not eliminate them. Close the cracks and crevices yourself as much as you can and apply pesticides accordingly. The more we reduce the living spaces, the more we will see the benefit of the pesticide.

Iv found a spray which is called protector super c and potentially lasts up to 3 months but is very watery and has the ingredients 0.1%cypermethrin is this the same as alpha cypermethrin
you can also use on carpets etc I’m not sure how effective it is but says kills eggs
wether this applies to booklice I’m not sure
alot of ppl in uk use Screwfix spray zero in
but I find within a week or so they’re back

Any tips or advice would be much appreciated from anyone who has managed to eliminate them successfully
smoke bombs haven’t worked for me
the pyrethin powder works if I scatter the n skirting boards but looks awful over a long time

It is difficult to know whether it will work or not because book lice eggs are not visible to the naked eye, but it is possible to coincide with the hatching time of the eggs by spraying at least every 2 weeks.

Is cypermethrin the same as alpha cypermethrin

Yes they are similar, they work

Ok thanks il give this spray a try

good luck!

Thanks and for the advice too

But the bathroom and toilet contain pipes, drains and water, and are two of the three rooms in the house where leaks are most common.

Hey guys just want share a good new: I haven't seem them in two days...its been high temperatures and humid these few days and i was expecting to see alot of them coming out which what usually happens from my past experiences. Especially during raining days. (Today: tem: 14, humid 85 & 🌧️ ) I just checked around the house and haven't seen any. Hope I will stop seeing them from now on. (Dunno is it because i added a dehumidifier in the basement)

But also a bad news is that i found 7 dead carpet beetle larvae. I start seeing carpet beetles on the third month after i had booklice problem, i was thinking the reason might be the dead bodies of booklice attached them into the house because i never seem them before. Dunno is this a good thing or bad thing.(hoping they eat booklice lol)

insecticide sharing: Seclira pressurized insecticide, active ingredient: Dinotefuran 0.5%
this works very well, even tho my pest control company refused to spot treat the cracks, but the insecticide they use do kills the booklice. 99% of the booklice I found are dead!!!! I was told this will continue working for 3-4 months as long as you don't wipe/mop it. But I found it gets weak starting the 2 1/5 month. So if you can purchase this you can spot treat yourself and do it every two weeks to keep the chemicals strong!!! (Wear mask & stay out of the house for 6 hours after spray)

good luck 🤞!!

Are you living in a house or condo? Closing cracks wont be an option for me because the whole house are connected and closing them will just cause more moist behind the wall and give them a better living place. I am thinking to keep applying chemicals every 2 months until they decide to leave😭😭... next step for me would be: contact a mold and moist professionals to inspect the house, air sealing the house, re caulk the whole house. But this will need to wait till hotter days to comes.

Do you only find it there?

I live in an apartment. Why would sealing cracks cause more moisture?

House in canada are all connected behind the drywalls walls and the attic.(house in Ca, see attached) Sealing the cracks wont complete seal everything, especially due to how tiny they are, they can come out from the wall outlet/ from the attic/ lights/ or even the hardwood floor. Sealing it just push them to somewhere else, not killing them. And walls need to breath too, sealing the cracks will stop that and cause more moist to build up.

Wow, this is bad, but I still don't think covering the cracks will do any harm because they are so small.

Can someone help me and tell me how they got in a clip tight flour jar? I know they are tiny but I am baffled and there were
alot in there
also my house has been newly refurbished new plaster dry lining roof etc
is it drying out
they’re also attracted to wallpaper
iv had done on walls
I can’t afford to strip this as I paid a lot for this decor
help?!

They shouldn't go into the locked jar, there is something wrong with this! I'm sorry, but there may be a lot of them under the wallpaper... it's worth removing it. Wallpaper glue is one of their favorite foods..

I don't think they leave when the house dries out because the people living in it provide them with enough food... However, we are open to different ideas!

I had it decorated less than a year ago
il see how
i get on in summer
until
keep spraying and perservering
i have no wallpaper in kitchen and yet still have them there too

It is natural that the kitchen and bathroom are the most humid areas. Continue writing here as your home dries and see if there are any changes. If these creatures exist in every home, I don't understand why we care about them so much, why they bother us so much. I know a lot of people who ignore them. Do they really have these in every home?

If only those who got rid of them or whose numbers have decreased significantly felt the need to come and write here, there would be hope for us... What is gone will never come back...

So true