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What flowers and trees can repel mosquitoes

1, lavender: is a small blue-purple flowers. Origin for the Mediterranean, like dry, flower shape such as wheat ears, usually in June flowering. Lavender itself has an insecticidal effect, people usually use lavender to make scented sachets in the cupboard, but also some put it in the bedroom, used to repel mosquitoes.

2, insect-eating grass. A daisy herb, can grow to a meter high, small yellow flowers, a plant up to hundreds of flower heads, flower heads of the periphery of the bracts have mucus, like 5 open little finger is very interesting, as long as there are small mosquitoes fall on it will be stuck, after which the bugs body is slowly digested as its growth of nutrition, if there is dust sticking to it a few days after it was digested without a trace, potted plants placed at home to catch mosquitoes and absorb dust.

3, hogweed: is a typical insectivorous plants, it has peculiar leaves, and the top of the hanging an oblong "insect bottle", the bottle has a lid, can open and close. There are dozens of species of hogweed, and the shape, size and color of the bottle vary from species to species. Hogweed can be used medicinally, hepatitis, stomach pain, high blood pressure and colds and other diseases have a certain degree of efficacy, but also to catch mosquitoes master.

4, nightshade. Mosquitoes are afraid of the strong odor of nightshade, placed indoors, the fragrance of flowers can naturally have the effect of mosquito repellent. But smell for a long time because it is too strong may have uncomfortable reaction, it is recommended that the pot of flowers during the day to move outdoors.

5, mosquito repellent grass. Mosquito repellent grass has a lemon flavor, raised in the house, mosquitoes will avoid the plague as quietly escape. The reason is to repel mosquito grass contains a special "small raw materials" the plant using transgenic technology, with mosquito repellent gene --- citronella aldehyde gene structure implanted "vanilla

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4 kinds of people susceptible to mosquito bites:

1, made up or sprayed hairspray and so on. Most of these people will have residual stearic acid (a fatty acid) in cosmetics, which is also very tempting to mosquitoes.

2. People with body odor. Each person's skin chemical composition is different, for example, often sweaty people, the surface of the skin has lactic acid discharge, easy to attract mosquitoes.

3, high body temperature, exhaling carbon dioxide more people. Mosquito tentacles have a heat receptor, the temperature is very sensitive, so that in 50 meters away from the olfactory sense to lock the "target". Therefore, compared to the thin people, the body of the stout people released more carbon dioxide, or after exercise, breathing heavily, more likely to be mosquitoes bite. Sweating people body heat dissipation fast, can let the mosquito immediately notice.

4, wearing dark-colored clothes. Mosquitoes have dark habits, black is the preferred object of the mosquito attack, followed by blue, red, green and so on. Therefore, the best summer evening wear white or light-colored cotton clothes.

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