Indoor Mosquito Repellent

Most types of mosquito repellent are safe for use indoors. However, if you do not like chemical sprays and the like, you could try some natural types of indoor mosquito repellent. For instance, you could try growing citronella on the window sills of windows that you frequently leave open. If you grow citronella in flower pots, you can move this very effective natural indoor mosquito repellent from window to window.

Indoor Mosquito Repellent

Mosquitoes are one of the few animals that I cannot see a reason for, unless it is to annoy all the mammals on the planet. One interesting fact about these annoying insects is that the males eat nectar from flowers and that it is only the females who drink blood. Well, they do not actually drink it, they need the protein from blood to make the 'white' around their eggs.

It is fairly easy to accept that you may be 'bitten' by mosquitoes if you sit in the garden after dusk, but no one wants mosquitoes in the house, especially in the bedroom, ruining our night's sleep. This means that you will need some form of indoor mosquito repellent.

There are several measures you can take. if you often leave windows open in the evening, fly screens will keep most mosquitoes out, but if you do not want to go down this route, you could grow citronella plants in window boxes or in pots on the window cills. Mosquitoes hate the smell of lemon, so you could also grow lemon grass, if you like Thai curries.

Some people say that basil and mint are also effective indoor mosquito repellents. Again, you can grow them in pots or window boxes or hang dried leaves in the windows. If you do not mind a bit of organic smoke, the so-called camel dung spirals are pretty effective at deterring mosquitoes.

These camel dung insect repellents come most often in a green spiral like an old electric hot plate or as a green or brown cone. They last an hour or two and are pretty good at keeping mosquitoes away. Put them in the doorway or on the cill of an open window.

If you do not mind chemicals, there are a few things you can do. If you use nets over your windows, you could spray them with a permethrin based insect killer. Permethrin is a long-lasting, contact insect killer. One spray will last for about six months and all insects that come into contact with it will die quickly.

There is also an electrically driven type of indoor mosquito repellent. The set up is similar to the plug-in fresh air devices that have been around for ten or fifteen years now.

DEET based indoor mosquito repellent is still popular, despite regular worries surfacing about regular contact with it. It seems that there is not enough evidence to condemn DEET or clear it. The best sprays to use as an indoor mosquito repellent are probably fairly weak Permethrin-based spray, which you can spray about a room about an hour before you are due to occupy that room so that the spray has had time to settle.

This tactic of using indoor mosquito repellent may build up a layer of permethrin on your walls and curtains, which will kill all insects on contact for a long time ahead.