Garlic is thought to be one of the best plants to use to repel snakes. And if you plant garlic, all the better. But, you can use some of your fresh garlic to make a spray that you can spray in the areas you want to try to keep snakes out of. This spray is perfect for places ...
Nicotiana tabacum tobacco is a herbaceous plant from the nightshade family. Snakes abhor its smell and avoid coming to its area. However, it is not the most potent natural snake repellent plant. Pair it with other plants on this list to create a strong barrier. Its leaves have several uses ...
Plants may also be grown around homes to repel snakes, rather than be used as a remedy to directly treat the effects of snakebites (Houghton and Osibogun, 1993) either by topical or oral administration. In this paper we present the results of a review of medicinal plants used to treat ...
Leaves are kept in rooms to repel snakes. Tooth ache. Leaves are chewed and the leaf juice swallowed. Bleeding from gums, loss of appetite, headache. Unripe fruits are chewed to stop bleeding from gums. Dried fruits of Phylanthus emblica, Terminalia bellirica and Terminalia chebula are soaked...
usingmarigolds as pest controlis a touted to repel a variety of insect and mammalian pests. Unfortunately, the only garden pest marigolds have been scientifically proven to deal with are nematodes. The plants actually release a chemical that is toxic to the pests. That doesn't mean marigolds ar...
the snake was enjoying the smorgasbord around here. I know snakes are good and eat a lot of varmints, but I don’t want one nearby, especially one thatclimbsso well. So I spray a cinnamon oil concoction, which is reported to repel snakes, and keep a long bamboo pole handy to rustle...
it will attract and kill them when the fruit is crushed. The fruit contains several compounds that are known roach repellents, acting much like DEET. To make an effective spray, crush the fruit, remove the oil and mix it with water. Spray anywhere that roaches may travel. The Osage orange...
Old World tropics; 30 spp. Per. grasses, mostly aromatic. Rel. to Andropogon but pairs of racemes incl. in an inflated spathe and the spathes in a large compound infl.; the well-developed sessile & pedicelled spikelets of the lower pair are alike but male or neuter. Several spp. ...
Sharks, and some other fish are sensitive to theelectric fieldsgenerated by other animals in the water. They use this information to track prey. Weak electric currents are sometimes used to repel sharks.
Plants may also be grown around homes to repel snakes, rather than be used as a remedy to directly treat the effects of snakebites (Houghton and Osibogun, 1993) either by topical or oral administration. In this paper we present the results of a review of medicinal plants used to treat ...