What are flies afraid of?

Flies are harmful to humans because they carry a variety of pathogenic microorganisms. Do you know what flies are afraid of? Do you know what flies are afraid of besides mosquito killers, fly swatters, sticky mosquito paper and other fly killing artifacts? Now let's take a look at these things that flies are afraid of.

What are flies afraid of?

In the biological world, there are three types of predatory natural enemies, parasitic natural enemies and microbial natural enemies of flies:

1. Predatory natural enemies: including frogs, dragonflies, spiders, mantis, ants, lizards, geckos, insectivorous gadflies and birds. Chicken dung is the breeding organism of houseflies and stable flies, but there are often ferocious giant chelate mites and mite, which prey on fly eggs and maggots in feces.

2. Parasitic natural enemies: parasitic wasps, such as wasps, wasps, etc., they often lay eggs in fly maggots or pupae, and then take maggots and pupae after hatching. It was found that 60.4% of the pupa bodies dug up in spring were killed by parasitic wasps.

3. Natural enemies of microorganisms: Japanese scholars have found that Bacillus Morita can inhibit the breeding of flies.

What plants are flies afraid of?

Some plants have special aroma or smell, which is harmless to people, while mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies and other pests will avoid them when they smell them. Some of these special aromas or odors can inhibit or kill bacteria and viruses. These plants include: evening jade, pyrethrum, wild chrysanthemum, purple jasmine, lemon, crape myrtle, jasmine, orchid, clove, atractylodes, cornflower, dandelion, mint and so on.

1. Nocturnal incense: also known as nocturnal incense tree, originated in tropical America. The leaves are heart-shaped with pilose edges, and between summer and autumn, clusters of yellowish-green bell-shaped flowers bloom in the axils of the leaves. When the treetops on the moon, it will float out bursts of fragrance, which scents mosquitoes and is a good mosquito repellent.

2. Lavender: a small blue-purple flower of Mediterranean origin, shaped like a spike of wheat and usually blossoms in June. Lavender itself has an insecticidal effect, so people make it into sachet and put it in the wardrobe, as well as in the bedroom, to ward off mosquitoes.

3. Pitcher plant: insectivorous plant, master mosquito catcher.

4. Qili incense: Qili incense is a small shrub evergreen all the year round, with umbrella-shaped leaves, bright leaves, dense white flowers and red fruits. The mosquito repelling effect is very good when touching its leaves.

5. Cordyceps: Compositae herbs with small yellow flowers, a plant can have hundreds of flower heads, and there is mucus on the periphery of each flower head. As long as a small mosquito falls on it, it will be stuck, and the corpse of the insect will slowly digest as its growth and nutrition. if dust falls on it, it will be digested without a trace after a few days, and a pot of insectivorous herbivores will be placed at home to catch insects and vacuum.

6. Fly plum: branches, leaves and flowers emit a sensitive smell of mosquitoes and flies, which has a strong mosquito repellent effect and does no harm to the human body.