Learn these 5 tricks to keep mosquitoes away for the whole summer

Regarding mosquitoes, I believe no one likes them. Once we are bitten by mosquitoes, in addition to itching and pain, mosquitoes can also transmit a variety of diseases such as malaria, filariasis, dengue fever, and epidemic encephalitis B. Therefore, it is our common wish to have no mosquitoes in summer.

If you want to keep mosquitoes away for the whole summer, you must first understand what mosquitoes like and fear.

Mosquitoes like: stagnant water, sweet residue

Mosquitoes like to breed in dirty and filthy standing water, and lay eggs in these places which hatch into larvae. Therefore, clearing stagnant water in front of and behind the house and indoors is equivalent to removing its "breeding ground". Mosquitoes also like to smell odors like sweet wine, or stay in places with milk stains such as the bottom of milk bottles, so using sweet wine bottles or milk bottles with stains as "traps" can often kill mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes are afraid of - cooling oil, orange light

Mosquitoes are afraid of some flowers and the volatile smells of cooling oils and wind oils. If you place one or two pots of blooming roses, mint, Milan, jasmine and other flowers in the bedroom, or place a few opened boxes of cooling oils and wind oils, the mosquitoes will be dizzy and then flee. Mosquitoes are also afraid of orange-red light. In the summer, install orange-red light bulbs indoors, or cover the light bulbs with translucent orange-red paper, and mosquitoes will stay away.

Mosquitoes come out when it's hot. Here are 5 tips for a mosquito-free summer.

1. Install screens and use mosquito nets

Physical mosquito repellent is just like physical sunscreen, the benefits are self-evident. Installing screens and using mosquito nets cannot guarantee that there will be no mosquitoes, but without them there will definitely be a lot of mosquitoes.

2. Washing powder

Close the doors and windows, add water mixed with laundry detergent into a basin. The next day you will find some dead mosquitoes in the basin of laundry detergent water. If you continue to use this method every day, you basically don't need to light mosquito coils to kill mosquitoes. There will be fewer mosquitoes. This is because laundry detergent contains fragrance and alkalinity. The fragrance makes female mosquitoes mistake it for food and lay eggs in it. Mosquitoes cannot grow in alkaline water, so the effect of killing mosquitoes is achieved.

3. Mosquito-repellent coils

Whether it is electric mosquito coils or solid mosquito coils, they can repel mosquitoes and make them faint, but they basically cannot kill mosquitoes.

4. Essential Oil

Fengyoujing can relieve pain, relieve itching, reduce inflammation and repel mosquitoes. It is a common household item in summer. In particular, sprinkle a few drops of medicated oil on the blades of the electric fan. As the blades keep turning, the room will be filled with fragrance and mosquitoes will be driven away.

5. Garlic

Those who like to eat garlic can eat garlic. After eating garlic, people will secrete a smell that will keep mosquitoes away. Before eating garlic, it is best to cut it into thin slices and leave it for 15 minutes for a better mosquito repellent effect. If you don’t like eating garlic, you can slice the garlic, place it on the window or smear it on the screen to prevent mosquitoes from entering the room. You can also plant garlic around flower pots and let its special spicy smell drift away, and the usually ferocious mosquitoes will disappear immediately.

What to do if you are bitten by a mosquito

Don't scratch after being bitten by a mosquito. After scratching, the tissue fluid, lymph fluid, etc. in the skin will seep out and swell into a bag. The more you scratch, the more itchy it will become, and it will be difficult to subside. It is recommended that if the bite is very itchy, you can first flick it with your fingers, and then apply floral water, wind oil, aloe juice, etc.