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[Basil] Catmint [Ocimum basilicum] Nepeta cataria
When planted around onions it will repel onion maggots Spray can be used as general insect repellent if other stronger sprays are not needed Catmint oil has been used to kill head lice Grown around vegie gardens and near houses to repel mice and rats
Insect Repelling Plants | Herbology
In pots and window boxes against Flies Companion for cabbage, tomato and beans –downy mildew. Basil oil on skin against mozzies Made into spray – aphids, woolly aphids, flies, fruit flies, leaf miners, mozzies, scale, spider mites, thrips, whitefly. Also caterpillars, earwigs, millipedes, pear and cherry slug, pumpkin and other beetles, slaters, spiders and weevils.