How To Easily Eliminate Mosquitoes With Home Remedies

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Mosquitoes have bedeviled humans for centuries, spreading disease and death to millions. The latest plague they bring is the Zika virus.

Experts even consider mosquitoes as are perhaps the most dangerous animals in the world. They are the primary vectors for major human diseases which together infect hundreds of millions of humans worldwide and kill millions each year.

Mosquitoes typically come out during the morning and evening twilight hours, but any time the sunlight isn’t bright and the humidity is high, there will be mosquitoes hanging around.

The Dangers of Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes can carry and transmit diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, Chikungunya and West Nile. At least two million people a year die from these diseases.

How to protect yourself against mosquitoes?

- if you live in a place that has lots of mosquito, try wearing full sleeves clothes and cover most of your bare skin.
- try to wear light colored clothes as dark colors attract mosquitoes.
- don’t use fragrant cosmetics like shampoos and deodorants as these attract mosquitoes.
- try and remove all water pooling areas around your house, these are the breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

How to get rid of mosquitoes?

Here are some remedies that you can adopt to get rid of mosquitoes.

1. Camphor

Take a bowl, preferably having a wide open mouth. Fill half of the bowl with water. Now add a few camphor tablets in this water, you may use around 2-5 tablets or more. The bigger the room, the more camphor you will need in a bowl. Place this bowl in a corner of  your room.

2. Dry Ice

Mosquitoes are attracted towards the carbon dioxide that you release while exhaling. Therefore, you can also use dry ice to bring out the hidden mosquitoes as dry ice too emits a lot of carbon dioxide. This ice acts as mosquito magnet in order to bring out the mosquitoes from their hidings so that you may get rid of them.

3. Make a mosquito trap at home

You can make a mosquito trap right at home and get rid of mosquitoes without any difficulty. This trap uses sugary water and yeast that attract the mosquitoes. The sugary water is placed in a bottle that has a narrow opening through which the mosquitoes enter the bottle but are unable to get out.

4. Homemade Mosquito Repellant

If you are fed up of the chemical laden mosquito repellants, why not try making a repellant right at home.

5. Coffee

Many researches in the past few years have established the effectiveness of coffee in getting rid of mosquitoes, especially the species Aedes albopictus, or the Asian tiger mosquito can be effectively controlled by coffee. The studies has suggested that coffee can actually act as a deterrent and is able to keep the mosquitoes from laying eggs.