With the onset of summer, mosquitoes can be found everywhere. Plants repel mosquitoes mostly because plants can excrete special substances or emit special scents. Just so that mosquitoes do not come near the plant. So, it is unrealistic to put these plants into the house to repel all mosquitoes. These plants can repel mosquitoes, but the effect is not too significant. As an appreciation of plants, and because they repel mosquitoes and insects characteristics and think interesting, this is fine. Don’t ask too much of them. Here’s a look at plants that have the effect of repelling mosquitoes and insects. Here follow the career knowledge to understand it!
Mint
Mint is the most recommended to raise a mosquito repellent grass, emitting a clear scent to drive away mosquitoes, but also pick the leaves to make tea to drink, quench the summer heat and thirst, the taste is also cool and unusually good to drink!
mugwort
Artemisia belongs to the Chinese herbal medicine, rural almost every family must. Artemisia water soak feet to cure typhoid, to wind chill almost every family understand. Into the mountain farmhouse, under the eaves, door frame are hanging a bundle of wormwood, in case of emergency.
It is another good use is used to repel flies. Melon farmers, vegetable farmers in the harvest season are to set up grass huts in the fields, to live inside at night. In the early years without mosquito incense, to repel flies is mainly used fire rope.
Farmers cut piles of wormwood, using it to twist into rope. After sun-drying, set up in the doorway of the grass hut, lit, put out red light and smoke, red fire can light smoke, smoke can drive away mosquitoes. The longest fire rope has dozens of meters long. Ignited without fire, burning very slowly. That is, economic, but also applicable.
Fennel
Fennel, which is a vegetable and herbal medicine. It can be cooked and drunk in wine, and has a pain-relieving, chill-repelling, anti-inflammatory effect. It is also used to repel mosquitoes and flies.
In high summer, if anyone’s old man dies, the storage of the body is the biggest problem, because the usual custom of the funeral culture is to store the body for a minimum of three days. In this way, the body will be the next day the smell of decay, attracting flies. Mourners often see fennel placed in the hearse, rare is the remains covered with many green fresh fennel. Fennel emits a special smell that makes flies avoid.
Due to this reason, many people will no longer eat fennel, but also a bit of a big deal.
Geranium
Geranium, herbal flowers, can also be used as medicine, with a variety of effects such as hemostatic, diuretic. Its greatest characteristic is the special taste, due to the strange taste, folk also known as “stink ball” flowers.
In the mountainous countryside, many families discharge a few pots of geranium on the windowsill. Both can appreciate and purify the environment. Can also cover the mosquito flies into the window, rare is to touch the leaves or flowers, hands, indoor are special taste, some people can not accept the taste, mosquitoes can not accept the taste.
Pigweed
Pigweed is to make up for the nutrition by catching insects and other small animals, and the appreciation value is high, suitable as a hanging pot in the home. When dill is planted, small insects and water should be fed to the cage appropriately.
Flycatcher is also one of the carnivorous plants in the plant world by catching small insects as nutrition for growth. It is one of the carnivorous plants in the plant world, and its shape is very rare and has a high appreciation value.
Mosquito Repellent
Mosquito repellent grass is used to repel mosquitoes by releasing its scent. The scent is like lemon, and it is harmless to human body.
White flower pyrethrum
White flowers pyrethrum will make insects contact poisoning, and the flowers are often used as the active ingredient in insecticides to repel mosquitoes very, very good effect. This is not what the little daisy and so on, do not be confused oh.
Scented wood
Scented wood has the role of purifying the air and repel the role of mosquitoes. Although the effect of repelling mosquitoes as usual, but the market is very easy to buy, and high appreciation value, suitable for indoor potted plants are also suitable for garden design.
