Ways to combat mosquitoes in a summer cottage.
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Mosquitoes in a summer cottage are a fairly common problem, especially in places with high humidity. Often, people who are resting in arbors near the barbecue observe a huge amount of blood -sucking insects. In this article we will tell you how to deal with them.
How to deal with mosquitoes in a summer cottage: we make a trap
There are many methods from expensive to accessible. Please note that in the open space it will not work to destroy all mosquitoes. Therefore, the most effective are the means that can be used in closed rooms. Then you will be able to get rid of blood -sucking insects completely. In the summer cottage, you can only scare them away and destroy a small amount. There are a lot of funds, both expensive and not very. Traps can be done independently.
Instructions:
- A simple way is a plastic trap from a bottle. For manufacture, you will need a two -liter plastic bottle. It is necessary to cut the neck, pour about half a glass of warm water to the bottom. Dilute a couple of tablespoons of sugar in the liquid, add a teaspoon of dry yeast.
- All this mixture should be thrown. It must be covered with a cut part of the bottle, a neck down and just put it on the table, not far from your house. Insects will fly into the bottle on the smell, but it will be difficult to get the opposite to get out.
- Such a trap is capable of collecting a decent number of mosquitoes, which will significantly reduce the number of bites during evening tea drinking.
- A variety of Velcro, rolls work similarly. They are mainly used for flies and mosquitoes. They are simply hung near the gazebo or the place where you are going to relax in the evening. Mosquitoes simply stick to Velcro. Money, as well as small flies, die with them.
How to scare away mosquitoes in a summer cottage: review of funds
To cope with insects in a summer house is much easier. To do this, use a fumigator with a liquid or tablets. Now the market is a huge number of such funds. Choose the one that you can afford. Please note that not all such products from mosquitoes are effective. Because many of them only for a short period of time make mosquitoes motionless, after time they take off again, and can annoy vacationers.
Review:
- After using the fumigator, it is advisable to collect mosquitoes and throw them outside the house. If you want to act, there is a more aggressive method.
- You can just set fire to a special tablet with a lighter and put it out after a few seconds. This smoke needs to fumigate the entire room. In this case, mosquitoes will really die due to a high concentration of poisonous substances. Such smoke can also act negatively on a person, it is especially dangerous for allergy sufferers and asthmatics.
- As for the fight against mosquitoes in a summer cottage, you can use spirals. These are peculiar spiral products, which are usually placed on a metal leg, set on fire and smolder throughout the evening. Such a spiral is enough for a long time, it is quite effective, but only in a radius of 2 m. Therefore, if you have a large table or many guests gathered at the evening table on the street, we recommend that you purchase several such spirals and place at one distance from each other. This will increase the effectiveness of the fight against mosquitoes.
- You can effectively fight mosquitoes with ultrasound repulsioners. There are inexpensive, small, portable models that scare away at a distance of 2 m. They are effective if you have a small company. They work badly if the company is large. In this case, we advise you to purchase more massive, expensive devices that can scare away not only mosquitoes, but also OS, flies and other insects that will bother while rest and work in the country.
- You can cope with mosquitoes in the country with repellents. This is the most effective technique, because in the territory of large space it is difficult to exterminate a huge number of mosquitoes. Their number can reach several thousand. Therefore, it is much easier to protect yourself alone, to prevent the occurrence of bites. For this purpose, fragrant substances are usually used, the aromas of which frighten insects. Effective in this case cedar oil, as well as fir oil, orange. Effective means sold in sprays and a variety of solutions are quite effective. They can be applied to wrists, ankles, neck. There are also cheaper folk remedies.
Folk remedies for mosquitoes for a summer cottage
Folk remedies against mosquitoes in the country:
- This method will help to protect yourself if you are not going to kill a huge number of mosquitoes, but plan to protect yourself exclusively. For this purpose, it is necessary to mix 30 ml of 9 % vinegar, 30 ml of shampoo and 30 ml of vegetable oil in a small bottle with a spray.
- All this suspension is shaken and sprayed to the surface of the body. The smell of vinegar will annoy you only a few minutes until it disappears. A transparent, fat film will remain on the body. We recommend putting on clothes that are not sorry. Because fat spots that you have to be washed out can remain later.
- The method is effective and unusual. Mosquitoes can sit down, buzz, but they do not bite. This is a real salvation for allergy sufferers, in which mosquito bites cause allergic reactions.
- You can get rid of mosquitoes in a summer cottage using natural repellents. They are lubricated not only the body. You can strengthen the smell using peculiar burners. A fairly effective option is to use candles or aroma lamps. Just drop a few drops of basil or cedar oil and leave on the table where you are a meal.
- In the evening, the smell will scare away mosquitoes at a decent distance. An effective tool is camphor. If you rest near the fire, you can throw a tin can of canned food into the fire, and place 100 g of camphor on it. This smell at a decent distance to destroy all mosquitoes and will scare away their relatives.
How to get rid of mosquitoes in a garden: improvised methods
If you want to relax near the fire or sit in the gazebo, you can use the juniper decoction. It is best to boil the samovar and add juniper branches there, its cones. It will be quite effective fir oil, juniper, which can be used in aroma lamp or simply drip a few drops in boiling water. Couples, along with the aroma of juniper, will scare off insects. You can cope with mosquitoes in the country with the help of repapels.
Most often, aroma lamps or products made of tin cans are made. They are heated at the stake and drip essential oils that you have in stock. The most effective oils of coniferous plants, as well as juniper, cedar and wormwood. In order to prevent the penetration of insects into the country house, you can plant a bush of an elderberry, tomatoes near the window. The smell of these plants scares away bloodsuckers. You can lay out several twigs of chamomile and wormwood in the room. During the week, plants will dry, and insects bypass the housing.
Despite the huge variety of funds against mosquitoes on sale, folk methods are quite effective. They are not inferior to recipes that help at minimal costs cope with the invasion of mosquitoes in the summer cottage.
In the summer, we have many mosquitoes in our country house. The reason for this is the swamp. And they just love humidity. They fly during the day, they are not afraid of anything and no one. This year I bought good protection from them. Spray from mosquitoes and midges Dr. Rep. The composition includes natural oils that scare away these nasty insects. I apply a spray to clothes and open areas of the body (legs, arms, neck). He leaves no traces. Normal smell does not cause irritation.