2007-08-19 18:31:11 · 8 answers · asked by TELEATHA S 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Vicks Vaporub is the best mosquito repellant.
2007-08-19 18:41:10 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mosquitoes indoors? The best thing you can do is to have screens on your windows. All the remedies listed above only work within a very small radius of their source. The best thing you can do is to put up barriers on your windows to keep them out.
2007-08-20 02:11:34 · answer #2 · answered by ETXGardener 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes mosquitos don't like MINTS of any kind !!!
Lemon balm is also a member of the mint family & smells like lemons when the leaves are rubbed.
You can rub Lemon balm leaves over yourself & your clothing to repel mosquitos. Lemon balm contains volatile oils, including citral, citronella, eugenol, and other components as well as flavonoids, triterpenoids, rosmarinic acid, polyphenols, and tannin. Several new antiviral and antioxidative flavonoids were discovered in lemon balm in 2002.
http://www.answers.com/topic/lemon-balm?cat=health
Art Tucker, research professor at Delaware State University and co-author of the Big Book of Herbs, confirms that rose-scented geraniums (Pelargonium x asperum, sometimes sold as P. graveolens) contain both citronellol, which is similar to citronellal, and geraniol. But, he says, the widely promoted 'Citrosa' geranium, which is the so-called "Mosquito Plant," appears to contain only small amounts of citronellal and is not likely to be any more effective as a mosquito repellent than other rose geraniums. He states that a better choice for a homegrown mosquito repellent may be lemon balm (Melissa officinalis). Tucker says lemon balm is easy to grow from seeds and contains citronellal, geraniol and geranial.
http://www.herbsandnaturalremedies.com/herbal-insect-repellent.htm
Rosemary & Basil are also repellent to mosquitoes. http://www.thefrugallife.com/mosquitoesgarden.html
Good luck! Hope this helps.
2007-08-20 00:25:55 · answer #3 · answered by ANGEL 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
citronella candles,, work , but they stink.. mints of any kind, nice to rub leaves on your body,,, nice smels ... lemon grass is one plant that mosquito's dislike intensly. ( a member of the mint family)
keep your screen door shut and the mosquito's wont get inside.
good luck
2007-08-20 00:41:01 · answer #4 · answered by firstkiss 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Citronella- you can buy them at any walmart, cvs, etc.. very common product- comes in candle form
2007-08-19 18:37:52 · answer #5 · answered by es 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Basil
2007-08-19 18:38:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
cytronella (cit-tra-nellA) pronouncation.
that does work and it is a realatively inexpensive candle.
2007-08-20 01:23:39 · answer #7 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can also try "Lavender"
2007-08-19 18:45:17 · answer #8 · answered by Kosento 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋