When you mention these blood-sucking winged insects, a memory from the cartoon "Frog Traveler" involuntarily pops into your mind: "... what a paradise without mosquitoes? .." But this is for mosquitoes and frogs an invariable component of paradise life. For people, everything is diametrically opposed.
Rest on the nature, and just being in the apartment and in the house would have been much nicer if there were no mosquitoes at all. Fortunately, there are a lot of drugs and remedies against mosquitoes and their bites.
Fighting mosquitoes on the street
In the warm season, we are accompanied everywhere by an importunate squeak and unpleasant mosquito bites which, in addition, can cause allergic reactions and other dangerous consequences for human health. Therefore, going on vacation, especially to water objects, as well as just relaxing on a suburban site, it will not be superfluous to take care of the presence of one or several mosquito remedies in advance:
- Protective ointment, cream, spray . They contain components that repel mosquitoes. Most often, these are extracts of parsley, menthol or lavender. The minus of this treatment in a short time of action, because of which the treatment of the skin has to be repeated every 2-3 hours. In addition, it is unlikely that the application of ointments, creams and sprays is beneficial for the people themselves, especially for children.
- Fighting mosquitoes with ultrasound is a safer method for humans and an effective method against mosquitoes. Such scarers work according to the following principle: they make a squeak, similar to the squeak of a male, which the females fear and do not fly closer than 2 meters. It feeds the ultrasonic repeller from finger or microscopic batteries and can have a size from the boxes of 5-7 cm to very miniature ones.
- The mosquito lamp is the most expensive method of fighting mosquitoes on the site. It emits ultraviolet light, attracting mosquitoes and other insects. Under the lamp there is a grid, which is under tension. Approaching it, insects perish from electric shock. The minus of such a lamp is the need for an electrical power supply, since it works exclusively from the electrical outlet.
Fight mosquitoes in the apartment
In order not to have to fight mosquitoes inside the premises, it is better to prevent them from getting inside. And the main assistants in this are mosquito nets on the windows. But even with their use, you can not guarantee 100% protection against insects, because there are still entrance doors. So the nets will help unless to reduce the number of mosquitoes in the house or apartment, but they will still have to struggle with them. After all, even one mosquito can bring tremendous anxiety to the whole family.
So, the main means of fighting mosquitoes in the room:
- Living plants . Planting geranium, tansy, lavender, basil as house plants, you gradually expel mosquitoes from the house, as they do not tolerate the smells of these plants.
- Aromalamps . Instead of living flowers, you can use aromatic lamps, adding in them the oil of eucalyptus, mint, melissa, cloves, tea tree. Or use citronella oil, specially developed from mosquitoes. However, you need to practice this very carefully, so as not to harm people living in the house.
- Mechanical destruction of mosquitoes . Of course, this method is rather laborious and time consuming. In addition, killing a mosquito on a snow-white ceiling or on wallpaper, you risk getting an ugly stain.
- Aromaplasts, spirals, fumigators with liquid . The fight against mosquitoes in this way assumes either the ignition of plates and spirals, or the use of fumigators. Means can have a specific smell, or be odorless, which is especially recommended for children's rooms and rooms of people prone to allergies.
- Portable mosquito repeller . It is a small box that can work both from the network and from the batteries. At the heart of his work - radio frequency impulses, leading to the death of insects or their repelling at a certain radius.