Plants at home attracting bugs? Make 3 natural insecticides at home - highly effective and pollution-free
As the weather gets hotter and hotter, mosquitoes and bugs all come out to make trouble. Many flower lovers' carefully tended plants are all visited by fungus gnats, which just keep hovering around the plants all day long. Using insecticide only keeps them away for a few days before they appear again, and it can also harm the plants. Today Hua'er will introduce 3 natural "insecticides" to you, so that all the fungus gnats disappear.
1. Soap sugar water
Mosquitoes and bugs like sweet things. Sugar water can lure fungus gnats and other bugs, and sugar water is sticky, so it can trap the bugs. Soap contains fatty acids, which after being mixed with water break down into a waxy coating, and once fungus gnats get stuck to it they dehydrate and die.
Method: First prepare a small basin; a disposable small soup container will do. Boil tap water, then wait for it to cool to about 30°C to become warm boiled water. Pour it into the small soup container until it is 70 to 80 percent full, then pour in one spoonful of white granulated sugar and stir until it is completely dissolved. Then dissolve the soap into the sugar water, and wait until the water turns cloudy. Then just place it directly around the potted plants, and it can kill fungus gnats.
2. Soaking cigarette butts in water and spraying
The nicotine in cigarettes can also effectively kill insects. Flower lovers who have smokers at home can collect some cigarette butts and prepare a clean mineral water bottle. Break up the cigarette butts and put them into the mineral water bottle, then pour in clean water to soak. Once the water turns cloudy, it is ready to use.
Pour the filtered liquid into a spray bottle, then spray it on both the front and back of the leaves, the surface of the potting soil, and around the potted plants, and it will work very well.
3. Chili pepper water
Chili pepper water also has a strong effect of repelling and eliminating mosquitoes and bugs. You can use some fairly spicy small chili peppers, chop them up directly and put them into a mineral water bottle, pour in clean water and soak for 24 hours. Pour the filtered chili pepper water into a spray bottle and spray it on the leaves, and it can keep the bugs from coming back.
You can dry the residue, then place it at the edge of the flower pot, and it can also have a preventive effect.
That is all for sharing these 3 methods of repelling mosquitoes and bugs. If flower lovers have other additions, you can share them with everyone in the comment section below. If you want to learn more about plant care knowledge, you can follow Huajianke!