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Outdoor activities like trekking, camping, hiking picnic and more are the most done activities these days. But chilling in the wild is not that easy because mosquitoes are there to annoy you. Apart from the common bacterial and viral infections, mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise. Forget traveling or camping, you can be bitten and infected by these tiny but menacing creatures right at your home. This calls for immediate measures to stop them right in their tracks. So here are a few home remedies to keep the mosquitoes at bay.
Peppermint oil and coconut oil
Peppermint oil is another essential oil that works well in repelling mosquitoes. Combining it with coconut oil enhances its mosquito repellent potential and basically makes it your very own natural bug repellent.
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Scientists at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station have begun their annual mosquito monitoring and testing program for mosquito-borne viral diseases.
Philip Armstrong is a research scientist at the station. He said it’s too soon to know if this year will be a good or bad one for West Nile virus or Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).
“West Nile Virus fluctuates a lot from year to year as does EEE virus. But what I can say is the long-term trend, at least for EEE virus is we’re seeing greater levels of virus activity in more recent years. We had the largest outbreak of EEE virus in the country in 50 years in 2019, Armstrong said.
Anvil 10+10 is a pesticide that has been used for mosquito control in Massachusetts and throughout the U.S. The product purportedly contains only Sumithrin and Piperonyl butoxide.According to the state’s Mosquito Control and Spraying Fact Sheet, the.