With the onset of summer and spring, lots of individuals love to spend quality time outdoors enjoying trips or cooking barbeque with friends and family. Unfortunately, several outdoor activities attract nasty flies and spoil your enjoyment. So, you need to protect your food, clothes, skin, and belongings from dirty flies. Even if you can find various sprays that can prevent flies, they contain toxic chemicals that can affect your belongings, food, and health adversely. So, it is safe and beneficial to use herbs to repel flies.
Find Below Some Prominent Herb That Help Repel Flies Effectively:
Sweet Basil
Sweet basil, scientifically known as ocimum basilicum, is on the most famous herbs in the gardens throughout the world. It emits pungent anise-like aroma that helps repel mosquitoes and flies effectively. You can plant basil in a pot or flower beds just near your doors or windows to keep flies at bay. Also, you can use leaves of basil in your cooking.
Tansy
Tansy, also popular as Golden Button and Bitter Buttons, is used since past times to treat several digestive disorders, intestinal worms, joint pain, and bruises. Also, tansy is highly effectual in repelling insects, flies, and their larvae. Tansy also helps you keep ants and moth at bay if you plant this herb around your house. Also, it discourages nasty mice from hanging around your house.
Bay Laurel
Bay Laurel, scientifically popular as Laurus nobilis, is another natural repellant for flies. Leaves of this herb not only repel flies but also help you keep moths out of your closets, bugs out of your containers of cereals and grains, and roaches and mice out of your pantry. You can grow and nurture it in pots outdoors. Also, you can also bundle up the dried leaves of this herb and hang them near doors and windows or drop them into bags of your cereals and grains.
Lavender
Lavender, scientifically also known as Lavandula augutifoli, is nurtured for its attractive purple flowers and pleasant fragrance. Traditionally, lavender leaves are used in dried bunches to add pleasant fragrance to everything from chests of your drawers to baked goods from ancient times. This herb is an ideal ornamental plant to grow around your doors and beneath your windows. It not only fills your house with its pleasant aroma but also provides insect repelling effects that help you keep flies at bay. Also, besides flies, lavender repels mosquitoes, moths, and other nasty insects. Hang a bunch of dried lavender artistically around your house.
Wormwood
Wormwood, scientifically known as Artemisia absinthium, is an effective herb to keep pesky flies away. This herb is quite easy to grow. It secrets oils that act as natural repellant which helps keep a variety of nasty pests, such as moths, mice, ants, mosquitoes, and other pests, at bay.
Citronella Grass
Citronella grass, scientifically known as Cymbopogon nardus, is a popular insect-repellant herb. It is best nurtured in a controlled environment due to its invasive properties.
Pennyroyal
Pennyroyal belongs to the family of mint and helps repel flies and mosquitoes effectively. This effective herb keeps away ants and mice as well. You can plant this herb around your house to keep flies and pest at bay, but make sure you don’t consume it since it’s dangerous.
Apart from the use of these herbs, you also need to keep your house and surrounding clean and tidy to prevent the entry of flies.
Caution: Please use Remedies after Proper Research and Guidance. You accept that you are following any advice at your own risk and will properly research or consult healthcare professional.
