Sentence examples for fly repellent from inspiring English sources

Lavender is a natural fly repellent, and is even great at repelling your cat's or dog's fleas.

Another even speculated that predators might get dizzy watching a herd of stripes gallop by.There is, however, one other idea: that stripes are a sophisticated form of fly repellent.

Other hobos who have put their memories into words tell of the "bulls", the railway police who would beat up the boxcar riders, or shoot them; and of life in the "jungle", the name given to a community of hobos who had pooled their resources.Mr Stevens was most famous for inventing a fly repellent that he refined, and seemingly perfected, over many years.

Possibly, the mostly vertical stripes on a zebra confuse the fly's tiny brain and thus stop it seeing the animal.Another obvious question, though, is why other species have not evolved this elegant form of fly repellent, and what the consequences would have been if they had.

Although it is impossible to completely eliminate flies from the environment, care was taken to reduce the number of flies present by using fly repellent, and the study was conducted in the winter when there is a low incidence of insects.

Mix a natural fly repellent in a spray bottle.

ICIPE scientists studied why these animals are not attacked and have isolated powerful fly repellents from waterbuck skin, which reduce tsetse bites by up to 90%.

Use fly repellents to keep the pests away.

Two different kinds of fly repellents that can be used in this instance are gusanex and negasunt.

From work at the icipe (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology), based in Kenya and including unpublished work (R. Saini, personal communication) on the control of tsetse flies, repellents have been developed from the waterbuck Kobus defassa.

Basil - fly and mosquito repellent; grow near outdoor eating areas.[10].[10]