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A field sample of mosquitoes that could carry West Nile Virus.
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It's happened to most of us. You're sitting outside, minding your own business when you hear that familiar buzzing and before you can find the culprit, the mosquito attacks. Mosquito bites can be annoyingly itchy and they can also be plain dangerous. Mosquitoes carry disease and multiply rapidly. You can eliminate mosquito-attracting standing water and buy mosquito repellants, but our advice is to take your protection a step further and add a few easy-growing plants that repel mosquitoes.

In the following pages, we'll describe five plants that are said to send mosquitoes packing.

Let's start with catnip, a plant that attracts felines, but keeps mosquitoes at bay.