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No, mints don't. However, ants use scents as a way of navigation. Consequently, if you were to rub a mint in an ant's path's wake, it would likely get lost because the scent of the mint overrides the scent that it leaves behind.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 10y agoYes, mint leaves repel ants because of the repellent essential oil which they contain.
Specifically, the plant in question (Mentha spp) contain essential oils. The oils exude strong smells. Ants (Formicidae family) keep away from strongly-colored, -smelling, -tasting, -textured food sources. They prefer not to advertize their presence to natural enemies or offend their fellow anthole residents by way of such overpowering -- to their point of view -- scents whose dissipation takes energy and time.
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∙ 13y agoYes, the mint plant gives off a smell that makes the insects repel.
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∙ 9y agoNo.
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