Repellent types
Many popular plants not only smell, but also effectively repel insects. Fragrant mint contains essential oils in the leaves, repelling midges and mosquitoes. Lavender, catnip, thyme, and basil have the same effect, because the scent - while appealing to you - scares away insects from your garden.
A lesser known but equally effective option for keeping mosquitoes and midges out is geranium. It is an ornamental plant with a lemon scent and loves light, airy spaces and morning watering.
Among the commercial insect repellents, you can find insecticides and traps for every taste. But not everyone likes the use of chemicals, especially if there are children in the house. In addition, chemistry destroys insects, but does not scare away. She has other tasks.
You can prevent flies from entering the house. For this, natural aromas are used to scare them away. You can ward off flies with essential oils and aromatic plants. At the dacha, trees and flowers are planted, the smell of which insects do not like.
Deadly scent
There are, of course, many modern means of disinsection - all kinds of dichlorvos, sprays, odorless plates, odorless tablets, etc.
However, folk remedies have not been canceled either. All of them act on the principle: scare with the smell. The fact is that there are many scents in nature that flies do not like. Let's see what smell scares off flies and what these insects are especially afraid of.
Aromatic herbs
From folk remedies, herbs from flies are the most popular. These include:
- tansy;
- lavender;
- mint;
- basil;
- rosemary;
- sagebrush;
- tomatoes.
Plants that repel flies release essential compounds that insects are afraid of. Herbs are most effective fresh, and preferably live. Some of these plants are best used against flies in the country, since they will not grow in the house, and in dry form they are ineffective.
- Tansy. An old Russian remedy. For flies, tansy is used during the flowering period. Plants are cut and hung in bunches on window frames and doorways. Flies fly around the side of the tansy during the first days. Then the flowers dry up and begin to crumble to the floor.
- Sagebrush. Flies do not like the smell of this plant. The herb is used in the same way as tansy. With the same side effect. Only in this case, not flowers, but small leaves fall off.
- Lavender. This plant is used to make the most popular essential oil for repelling flies and mosquitoes. Fresh used in the same way as other herbs. With the same consequences.
- Tomatoes. It is difficult to find a dacha without tomato beds, and flies cannot stand the smell of these nightshades. Some of the tops must be removed from tomato bushes. The cut pieces of the stems are not thrown away, but placed on the windowsill to protect against insects.
Aromatic herbs for flies
What to plant in the country
The dacha is good because there you can set up a flower garden under the windows, and plant garden plants on the beds from flies. These crops include almost all herbs.
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Along the perimeter, you can plant vegetation that can form a hedge:
- Walnut;
- bird cherry;
- elderberry black;
- laurel;
- thuja;
- juniper.
The last three trees grow in the southern regions.
What to grow in an apartment
The appearance of small food gnats is very unpleasant. For their extermination, it is enough to have in service with only a couple of methods.
Smoking out
The procedure will require an old unnecessary frying pan. Heat the skillet well and place chopped hard camphor in it. After 3-5 minutes, you will notice a slight smoke from the incandescent substance. For maximum effect, walk around the apartment with a steaming skillet. For humans, camphor smoke is non-toxic, but it has a destructive effect on insects.
Geranium
The plant helps to scare away not only house flies, but also small midges. Drosophila does not tolerate flower scent. To scare away and prevent the appearance of midges, it is enough to put one pot with a plant in each room.
The method is designed to combat midges living in the ground. Prepare a solution of potassium permanganate and treat the leaves and stems of the affected flower with it. To destroy the larvae in the soil, insert matches with the gray down into the ground.
Garlic
Destructive for midges and the smell of garlic. Mash the head of the garlic with a fork and spread it in the places where fruit flies accumulate. The flies will disappear in a matter of minutes.
Clove and orange
The product repels insects with a sour-spicy aroma. Stick a pair of cloves into the orange peel and place them in places where midges appear.
When midges appear in the apartment during the cold season, it is enough just to ventilate the apartment. When the air temperature drops, insects die.
Mix equal proportions of baking soda and milk and add some formalin to the mixture. Pour the solution into containers and place it around the apartment where children or pets cannot reach them.
The acrid smell of vinegar has a detrimental effect on midges. Dilute 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar in 1 liter of water and rub all surfaces in the apartment. The method is unproductive, since after 2 hours the smell of the substance disappears and no longer scares away insects.
Kerosene
Dilute kerosene in water and use a rag to wipe down surfaces that flies come into contact with. Ventilate the area after the procedure. Insects hate the smell of not only kerosene, but also turpentine. Therefore, if no kerosene is found, a solution of turpentine will give the same effect.
Black pepper
If black pepper enters the intestinal cavity of an insect, death is inevitable. To make the fly eat the spice, mix black pepper with sugar, arrange in plates and arrange around the apartment. Pests, attracted by the sweet aroma, will eat the treat along with the poison.
Flies die after consuming saccharin. Take advantage of this fact and cook sweet poison. To do this, mix 2 g of saccharin, 20 g of honey and 250 ml of water. Saturate newspapers with the resulting mixture and spread on windowsills and other places where flies accumulate. After eating the sweet bait, the flies will die.
Sometimes it happens that annoying insects appear in the apartment even in the cold season. Most often, homeowners are perplexed how they get into the house and conduct an endless struggle with pests.
In fact, you need to fight not with the fact of the appearance of insects, but with the original cause. Take a good look at the dwelling, perhaps there are cracks in the walls through which flies make their way into the house from the nearest garbage chutes, heating systems, basements, entrances. By filling holes and crevices, you will forever get rid of dipteran pests.
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How to protect animals from flies
Not only people suffer from annoying insects, but also animals, which also experience unpleasant sensations from contact with flies, need our care and protection from them. Most of all, animals kept on the street suffer: yard dogs, horses and cows, which are literally gnawed alive by hungry flies. At the site of the bites, wounds and pathogenic microflora appear, the skin begins to suffer and rot.You should not start a similar situation, measures to combat must be taken immediately.
To protect animals from fly bites, both repellents are used, that is, those agents whose function is to scare away, and insecticides, substances aimed at destroying insects. Scarers are applied to animal hair in the same way as flea drops: in the spine, on the back of the head and withers (Byofly and Flybyte ). The action of such drugs lasts for a long time, mainly for three weeks.
Widely known Agita which dissolves in warm water and is sprayed on any surfaces, windows and doors. Special sprays made on the basis of pyretin, permethrin and malathion, paralyzing insects, are also used. But unlike the drug Bayofly, the action of the spray is limited in time - it is only a few hours, which is a significant disadvantage. Aerosols are also applicable, but remember that no animals should be in the room when the chemical is used.
Plants - in service
In nature, everything is interconnected, and if some plants attract flies, others scare them away or even destroy them. Let's take a closer look.
Geranium
The flower contains bactericidal components that flies cannot tolerate. If you put several pots of geraniums on the windowsill or balcony, you will forever forget about the problem of pests.
Venus flytrap
A seemingly harmless flower is able not only to scare away, but also to destroy flies. It is a carnivorous plant that feeds on insects. As soon as the fly lands on the open bud, it immediately slams shut. Then the "predator" digests the pest with the help of digestive enzymes. The flycatcher will not cope with a large population of Venus, but for scaring off and destroying, accidentally flown flies is perfect.
Such plants produce toxic substances that flies cannot tolerate. Put a pot with a plant on the windowsill and insects will not have a desire to fly into your apartment.
Fly contact with cherry tomato foliage can result in death. When several pots with seedlings appear in the apartment, the insects will stop annoying and leave your home forever.
Elderberry, fern
Scare away only works if you use fresh fern or elderberry leaves. Fold small bouquets and spread them around the apartment. Make sure that such bouquets do not dry out. There will be no effect, on the contrary, insects will be attracted by the smell of dry leaves.
Flies do not tolerate refreshing odors. When fragrant plants in pots appear in the apartment or bouquets simply collected from them, insects will leave the home.
Plant aromas are often harmful to insects. Experience has proven that, for example, tomato leaves, if spread out on the windowsill and around the room, will make flies leave your home. You can also place several pots of tomato seedlings on the balcony - this will be a kind of protective barrier protecting you.
Eucalyptus, cloves and anise also give off a fly-repelling odor. Oils from these plants can be purchased. Next, just soak a cotton swab in them. Such a fleece, lying on the windowsill, will become a real gas protection against harmful insects.
You can always buy cedar oil in the pharmacy - you should rub the kitchen surfaces with them, or simply run it along the baseboard with a dampened cotton swab. True, if someone has allergies or bronchial asthma in the house, it is better not to risk it.
In this case, a more suitable option is wormwood. Tear off a fresh bush of this plant, dry it and arrange small branches on the windowsill, in the area of the window, and also hang the associated small bouquets higher - so that all the air is literally saturated with a bitter aroma. Believe me, flies will sense danger far from your windows - they are very sensitive to such odors.
Surprisingly, the bay leaf, whose aroma is loved by almost everyone, also drives away flies. Just boil it in boiling water for 15-20 minutes, and then let it brew for several hours, after wrapping the pan in a warm cloth. Spray the resulting infusion on the window, windowsill, corners in the room. Rest assured this tool will work as it should. By the way, you can also make tarragon infusion if you have it at your fingertips.
Wheatgrass decoction gives very good results. It is prepared very simply - chopped plant roots are boiled in 1.5 liters of cold water, the water is brought to a boil three times (visually, the solution should turn light yellow). After that, cool the infusion and wash your face and hands with it - be calm, the flies will forget about you for a long time.
Chemistry has the last word
And, finally, if a lot of things have been tried, and the flies continue to get bored, do not despair: they are all afraid of specific chemical aromas. And they have quite a lot of substances available to anyone - ammonia, vinegar, creolin and others.
For example, if you went on a picnic and annoying insects haunt you, you can spray ammonia around the parking lot. And for summer residents, the advice will be as follows: dissolve 50 ml of ammonia in 4-5 liters of clean water and spray the borders of the beds with this solution, of course, avoiding the substance getting on the plants. In addition to the fact that you will forget about flies for a long time, it will also be a useful top dressing for plants - a typical nitrogen fertilizer.
Similarly, you can make a solution with ordinary vinegar or vinegar essence. Be careful with the latter - it is a very concentrated substance. Do not inhale its vapors and avoid contact with skin, and it is better to leave the room during processing, especially children.
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Finally, another time-tested drug is creolin. It is often used in veterinary medicine just to fight insects. So why not use it for domestic purposes as well? The product is sold already in the form of a ready-made solution, so you can spray the places where flies accumulate from a bottle, or you can dilute it with water - act according to the situation and be sure to follow the instructions.
Take everything into your own hands and have a nice summer day!
Spices
If it is not possible to grow plants, homemade spices help a lot against flies in the apartment. Many of them are the same aromatic plants from the dacha, but in dried form. The action of dry spices is much weaker and insects, in case of strong need, ignore the smell of bay leaves. Unless they sit on the spices themselves, but they fly around the kitchen calmly.
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It is possible to achieve "decent behavior" from Diptera with the help of products that do not grow in Russian gardens: lemon and carnation.
Lemon with cloves against flies
Clove has a very strong spicy scent and is rich in essential oils. Even when dried, it releases enough phytoncides to repel insects.
The repeller is easy to make: 6-8 clove buds are stuck into a half of a lemon. This mixture of scents is very effective. But you need to change the lemon every 3-4 days.
Preventive measures
An important factor in keeping flies out of the apartment is cleanliness. Everywhere. In the courtyard. In common areas. In the House. In the room. Near the trash can.
It is recommended to keep food waste in black bags, in tightly closed trash bins. Garbage should be taken out regularly, especially in summer, without waiting for not only flies, but also cockroaches, midges and fleas to come to visit.
Flies are catastrophically afraid of drafts, so you should regularly ventilate the apartment. To prevent insects from entering the room through open windows, the frames should be wiped with vinegar.
