Overview
- LA NACION advises hanging clear bottles filled with water and a splash of white vinegar so sunlight refracts to deter birds while the odor discourages flying insects.
- The bottle method includes perforating the cap to release aroma, placing bottles in sunny spots, and renewing the mix every 7–10 days to counter evaporation and stagnant water.
- Diario Uno recommends soaking broken mosquito-coil fragments in a vinegar–water mix, optionally with lemon peel or cloves, to set near windows or spray where mosquitoes gather.
- Background provided notes mosquito coils combine an organic base with synthetic insecticides and release repellent smoke when burned, which the vinegar preparation seeks to harness without burning.
- A later Diario Uno guide targets whitefly with a garden spray of one part vinegar to ten parts water plus a few drops of biodegradable soap, applied to leaf undersides at dawn or dusk and repeated every three days.