What are the plants that can repel mosquitoes in summer? Quickly take a look at these 9 kinds of mosquito repellent plant potted plants, summer is not afraid of mosquitoes!

As soon as summer comes, mosquitoes are infested, and the season of frequent activities not only disturbs people's dreams, but also gets bitten and covered with bags. Hanging mosquito nets is troublesome, and ordering mosquito-repellent incense or insect repellent is too harmful to the respiratory tract. What are the plants that can ward off mosquitoes?

1. Mosquito repellent grass

Mosquito repellent grass can release some natural essential oils, which can repel mosquitoes. Mosquito grass has strong adaptability and is a perennial herb, which can be cultivated indoors and outdoors. It emits melancholy lemon fragrance all the year round and has the effect of repelling mosquitoes and purifying the air. The real realization of no spraying, no smoking, biological natural mosquito repellent.

2. Mint

First of all, peppermint oil, menthone and menthol contained in peppermint are easily dispersed, which can dispel mosquitoes to a certain extent. Secondly, mint also contains deworming essential oil, which smells very mild and is harmless to the human body. Therefore, it can be used as an indoor deworming incense, which is most effective in spraying or fumigating incense in summer.

In the summer with more mosquitoes, peppermint can be placed near the window of the bedroom and sprayed with water on mint leaves in the evening, which helps to spread the fragrance of mint and dispel mosquitoes. After being bitten by mosquitoes, you can also grind peppermint leaves into juice and apply it to the bite, which can relieve itching and feel cool and comfortable after use.

3. Jasmine flower

Contains jasmine flavonoids, mannitol and other medicinal ingredients, rich fragrance of flowers, placed indoors in summer, can keep mosquitoes away.

4. Lavender

Also known as lavender: perfume plant, spirit vanilla, vanilla, yellow vanilla, Lavender.

Lavender prairie is produced in the Mediterranean, the lilac tidbits are as long and beautiful as spikelets, with gray-green leaves; when the flowers bloom, they are magnificent, like a purple blanket in the wilderness. Light smell, a pleasant fragrance, give people a refreshing feeling, you know, this fragrance and mosquito repellent, it is precisely because this fragrant substance makes mosquitoes hate. You can plant it indoors or dry it into a sachet, put it in front of the indoor table, have the effect of repelling mosquitoes, and even pick its petals and put them in the water when bathing, to take a petal bath, when there is a fragrance on the body can still keep mosquitoes away from you!

5. Evening incense

Nocturnal incense belongs to the genus of Solanaceae. Native to South America, it is an evergreen shrub, alias evening primrose, night fragrance and so on. It is a perennial rattan twining herb distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Taiwan. It is a semi-wild vegetable eaten with fresh flowers and buds. In addition to viewing, flowers can be used for food and medicine, with the effect of clearing the liver and eyesight, can treat eye swelling and pain, measles on the eyes, corneal nebula, and so on. Between summer and autumn, clusters of yellowish-green bell-shaped flowers bloom in the axils of the leaves, and when the treetops on the moon, it wafts out fragrance. This fragrance, which scares mosquitoes, is a good product to ward off mosquitoes.

6. Pyrethrum

Pyrethrum is a special family of Compositae plants. It is called pyrethrum because its stamens are rich in an insecticidal active substance called pyrethrin or pyrethroid, which has significant insecticidal effect. The insecticidal characteristic of pyrethrin is that it is neurotoxic. Once exposed to pests, pyrethrin will quickly insert into the nervous system of pests, quickly knock down and kill pests, but this property will not have an effect on the nervous system of humans and mammals, nor will it remain in mammals. It also has broad-spectrum insecticidal properties, at the same time, because of the complex insecticidal mechanism, it is not easy to produce drug resistance, and it is easy to decompose into water and carbon dioxide quickly in the natural environment, without any toxic substances left. Perhaps because of these advantages, pyrethrum native to West Asia has become one of the earliest discovered and widely used insecticidal plants, and it is also the only insecticidal plant under intensive cultivation in the world.

7. Moxa grass

Moxa grass is also known as: Xiaomao, ice platform, curbing grass, incense, Qi Qi, Artemisia argyi, moxibustion grass, medicinal herbs, yellow grass, moxa wool, etc.

Moxa grass has been recorded as early as "Shennong Baicao Jing". Because of its bitter and warm nature, it is used to regulate qi, remove dampness and cold, etc., of course, in addition to medicinal uses, its mosquito repellent effect is not bad. Several plants are planted in summer, and light volatile aromatic oils can be very good at repelling mosquitoes, and the extracted essential oils can be scattered indoors or painted on exposed parts of the body, repelling mosquitoes and sterilizing at the same time! If you have dry moxa grass, you can light a little, smoking room, is also a good way to ward off mosquitoes.

8. Marigold

Marigold is an annual herb and an ideal raw material for extracting pure natural yellow pigment. It is called kakibusch in Africa. It is commonly seen hanging from indigenous huts to drive away swarms of flies. Marigold has a pungent smell, mosquitoes do not dare to approach it, is a special and excellent natural insect repellent.

9. Pitcher plant

Pitcher plant is a famous tropical insectivorous plant, whose origin is mainly in tropical Asia. The pitcher plant has a unique nutrient-absorbing organ-the insect trap, which is cylindrical in shape, slightly inflated in the lower half, and has a lid on the mouth of the cage. It is called pitcher plant because it is shaped like a pig cage. In Hainan, China, it is also known as Lei Gong kettle, which means it is like a wine pot. Pitcher plant is one of the insectivorous plants because of its poor native soil and supplementary nutrition by catching insects and other small animals.

There are dozens of kinds of pitcher plants, and the shape, size and color of the pitcher bottles are also different. Pitcher plants can be used medicinally and have certain curative effects on diseases such as hepatitis, stomachache, high blood pressure and colds.

In addition to these mosquito repellent plants, there are many other mosquito repellent plants such as Qianlixiang and basil, the "king of spices" and so on.

Note:

At present, there are many studies on mosquito repellent plants, and there are different opinions on the expected effectiveness, good and bad. In fact, from the point of view of mosquito repellent plants themselves, they do have a strong mosquito repellent effect, at least for these mosquito repellent plants, mosquitoes dare not get close to them and avoid them. If they are used by human beings, they are used in living rooms, coupled with ventilation, their mosquito repellent effect is definitely not as good as that of artificial products, and mosquito repellent plants are only mosquito repellent but not mosquito repellent, so mosquitoes still exist. If you completely want to say goodbye to mosquitoes, it is best to hang up mosquito nets or use non-toxic plant mosquito repellent products.