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Do plants act as bug repellents?

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9y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Yes, plants act as bug repellents. The repulsion most often can take the form of strong odors, which no bug enjoys carrying around as advertisements of their movements to potential predators and as excuses for shunning in their home colonies and communities. But carnivorous plants also may be considered bug repellents since they capture and dismantle any bug that they can, to compensate for low nitrogen levels in their native soils.

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