You also can find recipes online for natural insect repellents. When trying to choose a recipe, consider what insects you’re trying to repel and what you need the repellent for. A recipe for a repellent that will keep ants out of your kitchen will look pretty different from a repellent u...
Limonene oxides and β-myrcene have not been identified previously in the odour profile of vertebrates, but are known to be botanical insect repellents [40, 41]. Although many studies have demonstrated that haematophagous insects show feeding preferences for certain host species, this is the ...
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As one of the most pungent of herbs, basil makes an outstanding natural mosquito repellent, giving off a scent without the leaves having to be crushed or touched. A2011 reviewpublished in the Malaria Journal found that essential oils from Ocimum (basil) provided very high levels of mosquito pr...
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