Thanks to this grandmother’s trick, say stop to mosquito bites this summer. With an empty bottle and only 3 ingredients, you can craft a really effective trap. We explain to you.

In summer, it’s always the same problem, mosquitoes give us a hard time! So if you want to avoid chemical products sold on the market to spend a quiet summer without mosquitoes, you can opt for equipment such as mosquito nets on the windows, or for natural repellents such as cloves, lavender, basil, geraniums… The essential oils of lemongrass, Egyptian geranium or lemon eucalyptus are also effective in repelling small animals.

But we have even better, a trap well known to our grandmothers, very effective in overcoming mosquitoes. To make it, you will need a 1.5 L plastic water bottle, 50 grams of brown sugar, half a sachet of baker’s yeast and 20cl of warm water. Here’s how to make the trap:

With that, you will be quiet for at least fifteen days! Worth a try, right?