
You’ve likely heard that certain scents can keep bugs and other pests away from your home. It helps. Placing specific scents around your home can protect it from specific pests. However, you have to understand that this isn’t going to work for all
residential pests. For instance, bedbugs are more resilient and won’t give up so easily. Instead, they’re going to walk through most scents and enter your home regardless. If this is something you’re trying to achieve, you should know that one scent works.
Baby
bedbugs release a foul odor that allows them to keep male
bedbugs away. It works great for stopping male
bedbugs, but it may not work for female
bedbugs. Therefore, it is hard to rely on this scent alone. Instead, you’ll need something more effective. The United States Department of Agriculture recently studied the
toxicity of essential oils on
bedbugs. It was found that essential oils could be used to eliminate
bedbugs, but some were more effective than others.
In general, the most effective essential oils were paraffin oil and silicone oil. They might not keep
bedbugs away, but they will eliminate them. It is best to mix the silicone oil in water and spray it directly on the
bedbugs.