"repel mosquitoes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that is effective at helping to prevent mosquitoes from biting you. For example, "I always use a bug spray that is designed to repel mosquitoes."
Some plants supposedly repel mosquitoes, but in "Mosquitoes and Mosquito Repellents: A Clinician's Guide," published in the June 1 edition of Annals of Internal Medicine, Mark S. Fradin writes that the best-known repellent plant, the Citrosa, a genetically engineered hybrid of lemon grass and geraniums, has been shown to be ineffective.
Mosquito repellant is awful, poisonous stuff, especially the types that actually repel mosquitoes.
However, this compound did not elicit a repellent response from the mosquitoes under controlled laboratory conditions or repel mosquitoes from entering the hut in the field.
But remember: no specific plant is going to repel mosquitoes.
Citronella extracted from plants is often used to repel mosquitoes.
Treated with synthetic insecticides, the nets repel mosquitoes and kill those that alight on their surface.
Of late, there are many textiles products that are claimed to be able to repel mosquito away from human.
The essential oils are citronella oils to repel mosquito, cinnamon oil to kill mosquito larvae, including Geranium oil to prevent mosquito (Patel et al. 2012).
Present inventions of mosquito repellent using the natural essential oil imparted on textile substrate are using various medicinal herbs that claimed to repel mosquito.
There are a lot of medicinal plants having potential to repel mosquito such as marigold, basil, chrysanthemum, citronella lavender including geranium (Rajkumar and Jebanesan 2007; Sritabutra et al. 2011).
We spoke in mid-July a week after Republic went live with its first curated offerings including RaceYa; woman-founded MaterNova, which makes patented clothing to repel mosquitos carrying Zika; and Farm From A Box, a company that sells toolkits to power small scale farms.
