Which plants repel mosquitoes? Here is a rundown of the common types

Summer is approaching, and it is once again the season when mosquitoes run rampant. Do you fall asleep every night on edge, listening to the buzzing of mosquitoes, feeling frustrated and miserable? Below are 6 mosquito-repelling plants to help you stay away from mosquito harassment and sleep soundly.

1. Night-blooming jasmine

Also known as night jessamine, it is native to tropical America. Its leaves are heart-shaped, with soft hairs along the edges. Between summer and autumn, clusters of yellow-green bell-shaped flowers bloom in the leaf axils, and when the moon rises above the treetops it gives off waves of delicate fragrance. This fragrance, however, frightens mosquitoes, making it an excellent choice for repelling them.

Night-blooming jasmine mostly grows in woodland or thickets. It prefers a warm, humid, sunny, well-ventilated environment with loose, fertile soil. It is drought-tolerant and poor-soil-tolerant, but not waterlogging-tolerant or cold-tolerant, and stops growing after its leaves fall in winter.

2. Lavender

It is a small blue-purple flower. Native to the Mediterranean, it prefers dry conditions, and its flower shape resembles a wheat ear. It usually blooms in June. Lavender itself has an insecticidal effect. People often make sachets from lavender and place them in cupboards, and some also put it in the bedroom to repel mosquitoes.

Lavender is suited to growing in areas with hot, dry summers and warm, humid winters, where irrigated agriculture predominates. Lavender is not strict about soil requirements and is suitable for growing in slightly alkaline or neutral soil. Lavender likes plenty of sunlight.

3. Pitcher plant

The pitcher plant is a well-known tropical carnivorous plant. Due to its natural environment, it supplements nutrients mainly by catching insects and various small animals, which is why it is a carnivorous plant. The pitcher plant has a special organ called the pitcher, which is the organ used to catch insects and absorb nutrients, so it can be called an expert at catching mosquitoes.

4. Mosquito-repelling geranium

The mosquito-repelling geranium has a lemon scent, and placing it indoors makes mosquitoes flee, because it uses transgenic technology to insert the citronellal gene structure, which has a mosquito-repelling gene, into the herb, using its own unique release system as a carrier to continuously release citronellal into the air.

5. Pyrethrum

Pyrethrum is a special family within the Asteraceae plants. It is called pyrethrum because its flower center is rich in insecticidal active substances called pyrethrins or pyrethroids, which have a significant insecticidal effect. The insecticidal characteristic of pyrethrins lies in their neurotoxicity: once pests come into contact with them, they quickly embed themselves in the pest's nervous system, rapidly knocking down and killing the pest. However, this property does not affect the nervous systems of humans and mammals, nor does it remain in the bodies of mammals.

6. Mosquito-clearing scented geranium

The mosquito-clearing scented geranium is a perennial foliage ornamental plant of the aromatic Pelargonium genus with a new genetic structure, obtained by Australian botanist Dick's team over more than ten years through bioengineering technology by altering the chromosome structure of the geranium plant. It is actually the same kind of plant. It combines the geranium's unique release function with the citronellal substance contained in another type of plant. The citronella gas it releases as it grows is not only pleasantly aromatic and able to purify harmful gases such as indoor smoke, but is also the nemesis of mosquitoes.

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