How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes in Your Bedroom – 11 Tips and Tricks for a Peaceful Sleep

It’s 3 am. That annoying buzz keeps you awake and you’re done with it. Swearing, you turn on the light, grab your fly swatter from the bedside table and go hunting to chase away the mosquitoes. Is this recognizable and do you want to do something about it once and for all? How to get rid of mosquitoes in your bedroom!

Where do mosquitoes go?

Why do you always get pricked and your partner doesn’t? Unfortunately, science cannot yet answer that question. But it really is true, mosquitoes – in addition to heat and light – rely on body odor. So you just smell too good. Or you have sweaty feet, that is also possible. If you are alone, there is no escape, but if you are in company, the mosquito will choose the person with the strongest body odor.

Whether you can influence your body odor? It seems that showering with strong-smelling shower gel or spraying with perfume does not make sense, or at least only for a very short time. Fragrance comes from within. In addition, you exhale CO2, which mosquitoes love. You can also forget citronella candles and essential oils. Okay, all well and good. But what does work against chasing mosquitoes from your bedroom? Read on for the 11 tips that will help you. This is how you chase away mosquitoes!

Also read: heat and showers, guarantee for mosquitoes.

Use anti-mosquito spray

Anti-mosquito spray is not very healthy for you, but for a few weeks a year and if used properly, it certainly can’t hurt. Moreover, a bottle of DEET is ideal to take with you or to put on your bedside table. Do you come face to face with such a monster at night? Spray a little in the right direction and he immediately breathes his last. A disadvantage is that these chemical remedies only work on the places that you spray or rub with them.

Repel mosquitoes with plants

Mosquitoes do not like the smell of lavender, lemongrass, rosemary, mint and catnip. The advantage of lavender is that it not only helps to repel mosquitoes, but it also ensures that you sleep better! Don’t have lavender at home, but you do have mint leaves or catnip? Then rub the mint leaves over your skin or spread the juice of the catnip on your bare body parts and the mosquitoes like to fly around the block. Unlike using DEET, using herbs is safe and not harmful to your health. A perfect alternative!

Place screens on your windows and doors

It’s a bit of an open door, but if you really don’t want mosquitoes in your bedroom, it’s best to keep your windows closed. This is of course not realistic, because you want your bedroom to be well ventilated. With mosquito nets on your windows and doors you can let everything air through in the summer while the mosquitoes stay outside. Useful!

Repel mosquitoes with a mosquito net

The mosquito net is an extension of the solution with the insect screen. This protects your bed from all mosquitoes. Make sure that your mosquito net is long and large enough, so that your feet are also protected and mosquitoes cannot fly under the mosquito net. The size of the holes also matters. It is of course not the intention that small mosquitoes can still fly through the mosquito net and sting you.

Mosquitos, photo: JEROEN / JUMELET

Fight mosquitoes with a mosquito plug

A mosquito plug is cheap and effective. The evaporator releases liquid that kills mosquitoes in the bedroom. And that’s how it works. An anti-mosquito plug consists of a bottle of liquid and an evaporator for the socket. You chase away the mosquitoes perfectly!

Take a mosquito lamp for the bedroom

Complete your ‘anti-mosquito set’ with a mosquito lamp. The blue light of a mosquito lamp attracts the mosquitoes and the UV light electrocutes unwanted guests as soon as they come close to the grille. Just an investment, but then you really fight the mosquitoes.

Also read: you can do this to prevent yourself from being punctured.

Use an electric fly swatter

Indispensable, such a handy electronic fly swatter. Where the mosquito feels the airflow with the old-fashioned fly swatter and thus escapes before you get the chance to hit it, it does not see it coming. Did you also know that if you approach the mosquito slowly, the mosquito will not realize that you are approaching it? Success is hereby assured! And… you won’t be bothered by dirty spots on the wall.

Turn on the fan in your bedroom

Mosquitoes can’t stand the airflow of a fan or air conditioner and will blow away as a result. In addition, your room will stay nice and cool during the hot summer months. This is how you kill two mosquitoes with one stone!

Fill pond and clean gutter

Mosquitoes love open water. The pond in the garden, the rain barrel and the stagnant water in the gutter are true amusement parks for them. So make sure that the water can drain away, close the pond and turn empty flower pots upside down. Bye bye bloody friends.

Wear nightwear

Long, thin nightwear is a great way to keep mosquitoes away from your body in the summer. Linen, for example, is nice and airy, which keeps your body cool and the mosquitoes are less likely to sting you. Also your bedding stays fresh and clean for longer!

Vitamine B

Sticking vitamin B patches or taking vitamin B tablets seems to help against mosquitoes. The idea behind this is that vitamin B changes your body odor so that you are no longer attractive to mosquitoes. Although scientific evidence is lacking, there are plenty of people who benefit from it and keep mosquitoes out of the bedroom. Bring on that bbq meat, those desserts and those tasty sandwiches. Oh yes, brewer’s yeast also contains a lot of vitamin B. You can try it, of course.