Summer comes with many perks: sunny days, warm weather and tropical vacations. It's likely you're spending many days hiking or at the beach and many nights at backyard parties or bonfires.

As with most things, we have to take the good with the bad. In the case of summer, the bad means mosquitoes and other pesky bugs who like to raid your BBQs and attack your skin. When trying to enjoy your backyard, it's never fun to instead find yourself batting at mosquitoes and scratching at your skin. While pesticides are the obvious answer to a mosquito problem, you might want to give some natural alternatives a shot first.

Let's take a look at the herbs you can use to keep mosquitos at bay during the warm and humid days!

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