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How To: Put an overripe fruit in a bowl, cover tightly with plastic wrap and punch small holes using a toothpick. Fruit flies enter but cannot escape.
Natural Insecticide Spray:
Ingredients: Equal parts of vinegar, olive oil, and shampoo.
How To: Mix in a spray bottle and spray around infested areas.
Lavender Essential Oil Repellent:
How To: Place a few drops of lavender essential oil on a sponge and keep it in insect-prone areas. Refresh as needed.
Lemon & Clove Repellent:
How To: Cut a green lemon in half and stick about fifteen cloves into each half. This mixture repels mosquitoes and flies. Replace weekly.
Plants that Repel Insects:
Against Mosquitoes: Lemon balm, lemon thyme, small-leaved basil, and Dalmatian pyrethrum.
Against Flies: Tuberous chervil, basil, and warbler mint.
Against Cockroaches:
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