This is interesting
The catnip that cats like is an ugly mint like plant with white flowers that smells like hospital corridors
If you sow it the cats won't know it",
Lions like it too
(You needed to know that didn't you)
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Catnip Repels Mosquitoes More Effectively Than DEET
ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2001) — CHICAGO, August 27 — Researchers report that nepetalactone, the essential oil in catnip that gives the plant its characteristic odor, is about ten times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET — the compound used in most commercial insect repellents.
The finding was reported today at the 222nd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, by the same Iowa State University research group that two years ago discovered that catnip also repels cockroaches.
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Catnip Repels Mosquitoes More Effectively Than DEET
