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    Plants That Repel Harmful Insects

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    This document lists various plants and their effectiveness at repelling or attracting different common garden insects. It provides recommendations for plants that can help control aphids, cabbage moths, cabbage worms, carrot flies, Colorado potato beetles, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, flies, mosquitoes, leafhoppers, onion flies, ticks, tomato worms, and whiteflies when used as repellents. It also suggests plants that attract assassin bugs, big-eyed bugs, damsel bugs, lacewings, lady beetles, parasitic wasps, syrphid flies, tachinid flies, and yellowjacket wasps as beneficial insects. Finally, it notes some plants like nast

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    This document lists various plants and their effectiveness at repelling or attracting different common garden insects. It provides recommendations for plants that can help control aphids, cabbage moths, cabbage worms, carrot flies, Colorado potato beetles, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, flies, mosquitoes, leafhoppers, onion flies, ticks, tomato worms, and whiteflies when used as repellents. It also suggests plants that attract assassin bugs, big-eyed bugs, damsel bugs, lacewings, lady beetles, parasitic wasps, syrphid flies, tachinid flies, and yellowjacket wasps as beneficial insects. Finally, it notes some plants like nast

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    This document lists various plants and their effectiveness at repelling or attracting different common garden insects. It provides recommendations for plants that can help control aphids, cabbage moths, cabbage worms, carrot flies, Colorado potato beetles, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, flies, mosquitoes, leafhoppers, onion flies, ticks, tomato worms, and whiteflies when used as repellents. It also suggests plants that attract assassin bugs, big-eyed bugs, damsel bugs, lacewings, lady beetles, parasitic wasps, syrphid flies, tachinid flies, and yellowjacket wasps as beneficial insects. Finally, it notes some plants like nast

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    Ayesha Tahir Khilji
    This document lists various plants and their effectiveness at repelling or attracting different common garden insects. It provides recommendations for plants that can help control aphids, cabbage moths, cabbage worms, carrot flies, Colorado potato beetles, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, flies, mosquitoes, leafhoppers, onion flies, ticks, tomato worms, and whiteflies when used as repellents. It also suggests plants that attract assassin bugs, big-eyed bugs, damsel bugs, lacewings, lady beetles, parasitic wasps, syrphid flies, tachinid flies, and yellowjacket wasps as beneficial insects. Finally, it notes some plants like nast

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    Plants that repel harmful insects Ants

    Tansy Onions Mint family

    Aphids
    Chives Garlic Marigolds Mint family Dried & crushed chrysanthemum flowers Coriander Onions Oregano

    Cabbage moths
    Rosemary Sage Thyme

    Cabbage worms
    Tomatoes Celery

    Carrot flies
    Leeks Sage Rosemary

    Colorado potato beetles


    Green beans Marigolds Nasturtiums Flax

    Cucumber beetles
    Nasturtiums Radishes Tansy

    Flea beetles
    Catnip Garlic

    Flies
    Basil Tansy

    Mosquitoes
    Dried & crushed chrysanthemum flowers

    Leafhoppers
    Dried & crushed chrysanthemum flowers

    Onion flies
    Garlic

    Ticks
    Garlic

    Tomato worms
    Borage

    Whiteflies
    Marigold Oregano

    Plants that attract useful insects Assassin bugs


    Alfalfa Carrot Goldenrod

    Big-eyed bugs
    Alfalfa Carrot Goldenrod

    Damsel bugs
    Alfalfa

    Lacewings
    Carrot

    Lady beetles
    Alfalfa Morning glory Yarrow Goldenrod

    Parasitic wasps
    Yarrow White clover Goldenrod Carrot Alfalfa

    Syrphid flies
    Buckwheat Candytuft Fennel Morning glory

    Tachinid flies>
    Coriander Fennel Ivy White sweet clover

    Yellowjacket wasps
    Ivy White sweet clover Carrot

    Plants that trap harmful insects Aphids


    Nasturtium

    Flea beetles

    Potato bugs
    Egg plant

    >

    Radish Nasturtium

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