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Most of us are agreed that tiny flying creatures like mosquitoes are annoying, they suck our blood and leaving a red spots in our skin. Transferring dangerous diseases such as malaria, chikungunya and dengue fever are another reason why we have to get rid of this creatures and drives it away from our house. Many kinds of insectisides are invented and commercially used by most of us in order to fight this creatures. This article will provides you with the information that you could replace your daily expenses for dealing with the mosquitoes in a smart and economic ways. And yes, the nature has provided us with the richness of its collection including the vegetations that can repel mosquitoes away from our house.
1. Basil
mosquito rapellent – Basil
The leaves from this vegetations has peppery odor. The best types of Basil due to repelling mosquitoes are cinnamon, Peruvian and lemon basil. Provides them with a moist soil, proper drainage to grow and a lot of sunlight. And let them do the job for you, which are keeping the mosquitoes and other annoying insects away from your house environment.
2. Ageratum
mosquito rapellent – Ageratum
This flower has gifted with rich colour which makes it beautiful, many people use this plants as their garden decorative collection. The scent from Ageratum is pretty strong because this flower have an organic subtance called coumarin, a commonly used subtance for man-made mosquitoes repellent. To maximizing their true potential, grind the leaves to get even stronger aroma, but don’t try to wipe it around your skin otherwise you will get itchy.
3. Garlic
mosquito rapellent – Garlic
Many people said that garlic is the essential spices for our food, I couldn’t agreed it more, but most of them didn’t know that this spice ingredient is also repel the mosquitoes away. The light flavour from garlic can make the mosquitoes fly so far away from you. Thanks to garlic, now we can use them not only for spices but also for repelling mosquitoes as well.
4. Horsemint
mosquito rapellent – Horsemint – images : Livingexpression.com
Horsemint is one of the Lamiaceae family members. It will expanded very well in the sun for sure. The flower is pink, this plant also can ward off those annoying creatures we hate the most. The best thing about this plant is, it doesn’t require all kind of service from us.
5. Catnip
mosquito rapellent – Catnip
These vegetations belongs to the Mint family. The Catnip has botanical name called nepeta cataria. The reason why it can ward off mosquitoes because it has an organic substance called nepetalactone which can drives mosquitoes away and it’s already extracted for the oil and has introduced as an insectiside spray. It can expands around 1,5 metres on a sunny environment. Catnip is a seasonal plant. And the most interesting is, your cat will surely love this plant, don’t forget to put a strong fence around it otherwise your cat will destroy this lovely plant.
mosquito rapellent – Lavender
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