In western aromatherapy, there are also many essential oils or plants that can repel mosquitoes, such as basil, lavender, eucalyptus oil, celery rapeseed oil, cinnamon oil, orange peel oil, rue, Qilixiang and cordate telosma. Some trees are called mosquito repellent wood or mosquito repellent grass, but they don't necessarily have fragrance. For example, Melia azedarach and Impatiens balsamina are also plants that people often plant in front of and behind their houses. Speaking of neem, the azadirachtin it produces has a strong insecticidal effect. In addition, some plants have insecticidal effects, such as pyrethrum, Euphorbia, Datura stramonium, Pinellia ternata, Bowl flower, Stemona, Plantago, Xanthium sibiricum, Lobelia chinensis and so on.
In addition, it is said that mulberry and hawthorn flowers also have mosquito repellent effect. I wonder if it is useful to plant mulberry and hawthorn trees. It is found that citronellal and other components have mosquito repellent effect, so many mosquito repellent products such as mosquito repellent oil are available. There is a lot of citronellal in citronella, so a transgenic plant called natural mosquito-repellent incense is produced. The gene producing citronellal is transferred to African geranium, which has a strong function of evaporating gas into the air, so it becomes a natural mosquito-repellent incense.