“An old mailman’s trick is to stick dryer sheets with linalool in vacant mailboxes to ward off bees/wasps,” he says. “It became an old wives tale when folks were using random dryer ...

Lavender is unsafe for these animals to consume because it contains linalool, a compound that is toxic to many animals.

Lavender oil with its main component linalool could now help to extend the service life of sodium-sulfur-batteries, as a team from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces reports in the ...