Don't you know what plants are used to ward off mosquitoes?

Summer is coming, and it's time for mosquitoes to run rampant. Are you upset and miserable when you go to sleep with mosquitoes buzzing in fear every night? Here are 6 mosquito repellent plants to keep you away from mosquitoes and sleep soundly.

1. Evening incense

Also known as nocturnal incense tree, native to tropical America. Leaf blade cordate, margin pilose. 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, which scares mosquitoes and is a good product to drive mosquitoes.

Nocturnal incense grows mostly in woodland or bushes. Like warm, moist, sunny, well-ventilated, loose and fertile soil, drought, barren, waterlogging, cold-resistant, stop growing after defoliation in winter.

2. Lavender

It's a little blue-purple flower. Native to the Mediterranean, it likes to be dry and has flowers shaped like ears of wheat and usually blossoms in June. Lavender itself has an insecticidal effect. People usually put sachet made of lavender in cabinets, and some put it in the bedroom to ward off mosquitoes.

Lavender is suitable for growing in hot and dry summer, warm and humid winter, mainly irrigated agriculture. Lavender is not strict with the soil and is suitable for growing in slightly alkaline or neutral soil. Lavender likes to have plenty of sunshine.

3. Pitcher plant

Pitcher plant is a famous tropical insectivorous plant. Due to the influence of natural environment, pitcher plant mainly replenishes nutrition by catching insects and other small animals, so it has become an insectivorous plant. Pitcher plant has a special organ insect cage, it is used to prey on insects, absorb nutrients organs, so it can be said to be a master mosquito catcher.

4. Mosquito repellent grass

Mosquito repellent grass has lemon fragrance, and being placed indoors will allow mosquitoes to escape, because it uses transgenic technology to insert the citronellal gene structure with mosquito repellent gene into vanilla, using its own unique release system as a carrier to release citronellal into the air.

5. 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 characteristic of pyrethrin insecticidal is that it has neurotoxicity. Once exposed by 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.

6. Mosquito clean vanilla

Mosquito net vanilla is a perennial foliage plant of the genus Pelargonium with a new genetic structure by changing the chromosome structure of geranium through bioengineering technology for more than ten years. It's actually the same plant. The unique release function of geraniums and citronellal substances found in another kind of plants. The citronella gas emitted by its growth is not only fragrant and pleasant, with harmful gases such as purifying indoor smoke, but also a nemesis of mosquitoes.

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