Unexpectedly, some people didn't know that mosquitoes stayed away after putting these seven kinds of plants indoors for a summer.

With the advent of summer, there are more and more mosquitoes, especially when there are children at home, who are most afraid of mosquitoes. In addition to preparing mosquito incense, electric mosquito patter and electric mosquito incense, you can also choose plants to ward off mosquitoes, which can not only achieve the effect of repelling mosquitoes, but also beautify the room and purify the air. Today, stone will introduce to you seven common mosquito repellent plants.

1. Mint

Peppermint itself has a strange smell, but it is its smell that makes mosquitoes particularly "disgusted". Peppermint contains easily divergent peppermint oil, menthol, menthone, etc. to a certain extent, it can drive away mosquitoes including flies, and it is harmless to the human body and has a warm smell, so it can be used as an indoor deworming; not only that, the smell of peppermint also has a refreshing effect, so putting a basin in the bedroom is a good choice.

two。 Lavender

Lavender is familiar to many flower lovers. It has a small blue-purple flower with a Mediterranean origin and is shaped like a spike of wheat. It usually blossoms in June. Lavender itself has an insecticidal effect, the most common, people put it into a sachet in the wardrobe, but also in the bedroom, on the one hand, in order to purify the indoor air, on the other hand, it is used to ward off mosquitoes and moths.

3. Night incense

Night incense, also known as night lilac, is a perennial vine shrub, native to tropical America. Leaves heart-shaped, margin pilose, flowering from June to November, flowering most from July to September. There are as few as a dozen or dozens of crown buds in each clump. Every day after sunset slowly open, more and more prosperous, release a strong fragrance; dawn closed, the fragrance will slowly converge. This fragrance can ward off mosquitoes. Some people have done experiments: taking a bath at home on a summer night, ordering mosquito incense is ineffective, but if you put a pot of night incense, the mosquitoes will be driven away, which is a good product to ward off mosquitoes.

4. Touch incense

Touch incense, its leaves are basically odorless, people touch it, there is a fragrance to the nostrils, the residual fragrance on the hands is a bit similar to the smell of air fresheners. When the wind blows, its leaves also give off a fragrance. This smell has a good mosquito repellent effect; indoor culture is not only mosquito repellent, its aroma is refreshing.

5. Fragrant wood

Fragrant wood is a kind of evergreen leaflet plant, the whole plant has a strong pepper flavor, has the effect of purifying the air and repelling mosquitoes and flies. Put a pot of fragrant wood in a ventilated place indoors, which is very effective in repelling mosquitoes.

6. Pitcher plant

Compared with the previous five plants, the principle of pitcher plant repelling mosquitoes and insects is not to release fragrance to ward off mosquitoes, but to eat them. Pitcher plants are famous insectivorous plants, which have a special organ-trapping cages, the edges secrete mucus, and mosquitoes are near. It will fall into the pitcher cage and become a delicious meal for pitcher plants.

7. Insectivorous Cordyceps

Compositae herbs, small yellow flowers, a plant can have dozens of flower heads, the periphery of each flower head has mucus, as long as there are small mosquitoes falling on it will be stuck, the body of insects will slowly digest as its growth nutrition; if dust falls on it, it will be digested without a trace after a few days. Put a pot of Cordyceps sinensis at home to catch insects and vacuum.

So many mosquito repellent plants are easy to breed; no matter which kind of mosquito repellent plants are cultured in summer, where there is scattered light indoors, it is a suitable growing environment.