The licorice-like scent of petunias is enough to turn off many an insect including aphids, hornworms and squash bugs. The ...

Q: Fruit flies are being a nuisance in my kitchen ... Some fragrant herbs, such as lavender, basil, and mint, are also known as mosquito-repellent plants and smells that ants hate.

Now, researchers have found that felines rub against the plant to apply a mosquito-repelling compound onto their fur. The finding, by a team of researchers at Iwate University, Kyoto University ...