Summer is coming, and so are mosquitoes. The mosquito repellent products sold by supermarkets, such as electric mosquito coils, mosquito repellent water, etc., such products must be used with caution for children, especially infants and young children.
So, what are some better ways to repel mosquitoes?
Take a moment to learn about the natural flowers and plants to repel mosquitoes, the latest and healthiest way to repel mosquitoes.
Nowadays, with the approaching of summer, a variety of anti-mosquito plants are popular in the flower, bird, fish and insect markets everywhere.
Mint, wormwood, bump incense, rosemary, mosquito grass and other prices in a pot of about 10 yuan, fragrant wood, pitchergrass and other prices in a pot of about 20 yuan, the price is affordable, fresh and eye-catching, the key is to also repel mosquitoes. Use wormwood, mint, night incense, sit there in the summer to repel mosquitoes, and prevent mosquito bites without lighting mosquito coils.
According to botanical experts, anti-mosquito plants are mainly divided into two types: lure type and repellent type.
The lure types are mosquito traps, pitchers, violas and so on. Among them, the cage of Nepenthes is specially caught, once the plant is fertilized and watered, it will produce an odor, attract mosquitoes to drill inside, and then the leaves on the cage will be closed, and the mosquitoes will be locked inside.
The leaves of the viola will have some glandular hairs that secrete some mucus, and the mucus will release some odors that attract mosquitoes. Once the mosquito flies up, it will be firmly stuck by the mucus.
Repellent insect repellent plants include peppermint, wormwood, bumper incense, rosemary and other aromatic plants. According to the anti-mosquito plant popularizer, in fact, mosquitoes are very sensitive to the carbon dioxide exhaled by people and the humidity, temperature, sweat, etc. of the human body, and mosquitoes are generally accurately positioned through amino acids, lactic acids and other accurate positioning released by the human body to achieve bites.
The fragrance substances released by anti-mosquito aromatic plants contain many organic substances, such as lemon glycol of lemon eucalyptus, deworming amine of mosquito repellent grass, and mentholone of peppermint. It can interfere with the mosquito's perception of human odor.
Simply put, aromatic repellent plants emit some strong fragrance, which interferes with the mosquito's receptors. This makes it impossible for mosquitoes to accurately find human skin, and then puts the human body in a natural barrier.
Of course, the repellent effect of plant aroma can only be effective within a limited range, and aromatic plants need direct sunlight, long-term indoors, will make it lose a strong odor, need to supplement the light of the plant in time.
In particular, physical crushing causes most plants to release stronger aromatic substances. Using this principle to make mosquito repellent sachets can also play a good mosquito repellent effect.
Wrote so much, natural harmless mosquito repellent method, learned? If you have a baby at home, try it quickly.
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