Marigolds work very effectively to control diseases and harmful insects from you garden. Gardeners know this well by experience. Why marigold can be used as a mosquito repellent plant? It contains pyrethrum, which can use as an insecticide to instantly many pets including, flies, mosquitoes, ants. We can grow near the windows, balcony areas in which mosquitoes normally enter into your home.
This type of method is very easy for you because it is not much hard to grow. Â
Some people believe smell of this plant repel mosquitoes away. Researches suggest α–Cadinol acute toxic against larvae of the three mosquito vectors.
Main composition of marigold as follows Alpha-cadinol (18.3%), betaeudesmol (14.5%) and tau-muurolol (13.0%) compared to alpha-pinene (47.8%), 1, 8-cineole (25.9%), linalool (8.4%) and linalyl acetate (4.3%) in myrtle.