How to Naturally Prevent Mosquito Infestation in Your Household

It is no great secret that mosquitoes can ruin the whole atmosphere because of the disease they bring. For this reason, dengue preventions across the country has been utilized to spread awareness in fatal diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever that these mosquitoes bring.

Given these facts, here are some of the most effective ways that you can use to prevent mosquito infestation in your household.

Dry Ice

One of the main elements that attracts mosquitoes is carbon dioxide. Dry ice produces a lot of carbon dioxide and is a great material that can aid you in preventing mosquitoes to invade your home. All you have to do is place a dry ice in a container and keep it at a certain distance. The mosquitoes will then be enticed to that area and they will soon be huddled inside the container. When this happens, close the lid. This method can be time-consuming, but this technique is one of the most effective method to drive mosquitoes away.

Coffee Grounds

Coffee grounds is one of the simplest home remedy that is effective in keeping mosquitoes away. Just sprinkle coffee grounds where you find immobile water near your house. As a result, mosquito eggs that are present in the water will then be forced to come to the surface of the water. When this happens, the mosquito eggs will then be deprived of oxygen – which will kill them before they hatched and prevent them from breeding.

Mint

Mint is one of the products that is loathed by mosquitoes. The strong odor of mint can drive mosquitoes away. All you have to do is take out the mint oil from the mint extracts, then put it in a spray bottle. After doing this, spray the mint oil on the exposed parts of your body. This will ultimately help you to keep these pesky mosquitoes away.

Camphor

Another home remedy that you can use to get rid of mosquitoes is camphor. All you need to do is to place the camphor inside a room. Make sure that you close all the doors, windows, and any openings that are present in the room. Then light the camphor and leave it for 30 minutes. After some time, you will not find any mosquitoes anymore.

Garlic

Garlic extracts are also a home remedy that you can use to effectively prevent mosquito infestation in your home. Crush a few portions of garlic and boil the crushed garlic in water. After boiling, pour the homemade mosquito repellent in a spray bottle and start spraying in the around the room and different areas of your house. This remedy will ultimately kill mosquitoes inside your home. You can also try consuming garlic to avoid mosquito bites. Or if you don’t want to consume it, you can always rub a garlic clove directly on your skin.

Lilac Oil and Coconut Oil

Lilac has a number of great qualities such as anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, antiviral, and anti-protozoan properties. It is also a great remedy to prevent mosquito bites in your home. What you need to do is to mix lilac oil and coconut oil in an even ratio and apply it all over your body. This will ultimately lead you in driving mosquitoes away from you for some time.

Basil

Planting basils in your garden will definitely help you in keeping mosquitoes away from you and your home. You can also plant a few potted basil plants around your home will ensure you that mosquitoes will not come near you and your home.

The Best Ways to Cook Game

Now that you’ve returned from your hunting trip and you got your game prepped up on the table, it’s time to prepare a meal out of it. If you happen to bag a deer from your trip, you would be surprised with the number of ways to cook venison, or the meat of the deer,such as making steaks, sausages, jerky, and even sausages. But what about other game such as bears, pheasants, ducks, and others? This article will detail the best ways to cook game and bring out the ingenuity in your hunting and culinary instincts.

Best ways to cook wild birds

Whether it be pheasant, turkey, or quail, there’s a variety of ways to enjoy our favorite game whose taste is reminiscent of chicken. But everyone’s favorite way of preparing this meat, especially with the case of wild turkeys, is to roast them in an oven for a certain amount of time after marinating them in special sauces and just let the aroma fill the kitchen. Of course, there are other ways to enjoy them such as deep-frying them or chopping them up to use as ingredients for other dishes. Either way, these birds can kick your appetites up a notch!

Best ways to prepare fish

The feeling you get when you catch your own meal is nothing short of gratifying, especially when it comes to fish out of water. The ways that fish can be prepared are almost endless, in fact, it can even be served raw. It can be fried, steamed, sautéed, baked, or even microwaved to perfection. Fish is one of those foods that can be enjoyed by wildlife in any form, man or animal.

Best ways to cook Venison

This may have been mentioned already in the introduction of this article, but it’s not easy just to leave this out. As written before, venison can be cooked in several ways. It can be grilled to make the perfect steak, grounded for sausage, roasted and baked, and other ways. You can even chop up the Venison and mix it with other ingredients such as vegetables to make a stew for you and your loved ones.

Best ways to prepare Bear meat

If you happen to obtain this game, be sure to skin and clean it to properly prepare its meat. Meat like this can be roasted with other ingredients such as garlic and can also be chopped up for stew, even kebobs.

You might want to be careful with this however as bear meat may make you extremely ill if prepared improperly. Due to them being omnivores, bears often carry Trichina Spiralis, a parasite that can cause trichonisis, which in turn cause sickness or in severe cases, death, in humans. Also, distribution of this meat is deemed illegal by federal law and acquiring this can prove to be difficult.

This game would make a rather unorthodox choice to prepare as meat. Nonetheless, it would make a fine addition to your dining table.

Hunting for game to put food on your table is good practice for initiative and hard work. Preparing it will definitely put your creativity and pallets to the test.

           

About the author:

                Katrina is your average gal living inside the metro who has passion for writing, travel and photography. She admires nature at its finest and always wanted to become one of them. Dreaming to have the Cinderella life one day, humming with the birds, dancing with the clouds.

Help The Environment, Recycle!

Our world is facing one of the biggest environmental threats—the bulk amount of waste that’s filling up our landfill every day.

Luckily enough, there is one way to minimize the amount of waste in the landfill—recycling. Recycling refers to the process of reusing waste, may it be solid, liquid, or organic, and converting them into a useful item instead of discarding them.

Being able to identify the type of waste we produce and appreciate the importance of recycling will push us to practice recycling and integrate it in our daily lives.

Different Kinds of Waste

It is important to classify the type of waste before doing recycling since not all kinds of waste are recyclable. Here is a list of the different kinds of waste.

-       Solid Type – Solid waste is considered the biggest contributor to waste pollution. This waste varies from paper, plastic, glass to metal waste. Each type of solid waste needs different approach when it comes to recycling.

-       Liquid Type – This type of waste is any waste that is not in solid form. Some liquid waste are liquids used in industries cleaning, wash water from households, and waste detergents. On the other hand, some solid waste can be converted to liquid waste for disposal purposes.

-       Hazardous Type – Hazardous is a type of waste that is harmful to people and environment. It has three kinds of waste—corrosive, which can easily eat through metal, inflammable, which is prone to fire, reactive, which can easily explode, and toxic, which is poisonous to both human beings and animals.

-       Organic Type – Organic type refers to the waste that comes from animals and plants. This can be flower trimmings, fruits and vegetable peels, kitchen scraps, and dog poop, among others. Frequently, organic waste is converted to compost and use as a fertilizer in gardens.

The Importance of Recycling 

Recycling is both beneficial to people and environment. Here are some of the significant benefits of recycling.

-       Recycling aids in minimizing the amount of waste we send to landfills.

-       Making new products requires huge amount of energy. On the other hand, recycling uses less energy compared to its counterpart.

-       Recycling helps in preserving natural resources since it lessens the need to use new materials.

-       Recycling lessens the presence of harmful chemicals that can be found in landfills.

-       Recycling paper products will lessen the need to cut trees in order to produce papers.

-       By recycling papers, air pollution will lessen by 75%.

-       Recycling aids in reducing climate change since greenhouse gases emissions from production and processing goods will be lessen.

-       Creates more jobs.

-       Preserve and improve the condition of the environment.

Tackling the threats to environment, such as waste pollution is very important since it is already alarming and we need to take action on it immediately. Fortunately, different environmental groups are actively building awareness through different environmental activities and projects across the globe.

If you want to make this world a better place, make time to educate yourself about different environmental problems and start involving yourself in various conservation and protection activities. 

About the author:

Laurel Santos may be a 24 year old adult but at her core she is just a little girl full of wonder. She lives in the city and works as a freelance photographer in the Philippines. She manages a small pet shop inside her village. She has a big heart for animals, especially stray dogs. She is an avid traveler because she believes that life is not lived within the borders of your own home.  Despite her busy schedule she always finds time to do one thing that she is very passionate about and that is writing.