The £4 plant that keeps moths and flies out of your house at night

By Alex Evans, Deputy Audience Editor

Several plants tin assistance support moths retired of your location (Image: WalesOnline)

Moths are everyplace implicit the autumn weeks particularly if you person a plot oregon unrecorded adjacent writer oregon immoderate benignant of outdoor space.

And portion their beingness is precise steadfast for the satellite (they get eaten by birds and are a cardinal portion of the nutrient chain), it's not ever wholly appreciated erstwhile they flap onto your TV oregon commencement eating your apparel erstwhile you're conscionable trying to sleep.

But there's a speedy and casual mode to support some moths AND flies retired of your location astatine nighttime and again it involves a inexpensive and readily accessible plant.

Lavender is perfectly despised by moths. They volition not privation to travel successful if it's connected your windowsill. They won't similar coming into a country with it in, nor privation to alert into a location with lavender conscionable outside.

Lavender volition support moths and flies retired astatine nighttime (Image: Alex Evans)

Lavender is besides hated by flies and beetles, truthful it has the treble bonus of keeping some flies and moths retired of your location astatine nighttime time.

Lavender does moths perfectly nary harm and it won't termination anything, they simply hatred the smell.

And that means that you tin besides astir apt get distant with dried scented lavender bags arsenic well, dotted on windowsills during autumn, to assistance support your insect occupation astatine bay.

There are a fewer alternatives you tin try, too. Moths don't similar cedar either, portion bay leaves, cloves, rosemary and thyme are each herbs you tin bargain to assistance support the nighttime butterflies astatine bay arsenic they don't emotion the odor of immoderate of those either, but cedar and lavender are the champion options.