Biological effects of essential oils--a review.

By F. Bakkali, S. Averbeck, D. Averbeck, M. Idaomar. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2008

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Botanicals as Grain Protectants (2012, background): “Worldwide reports indicate that when mixed with stored grains, leaf, bark, seed powder, or oil extracts of plants reduce oviposition rate and suppress adult emergence of stored product insects, and also reduce seed damage rates [25, 40, 46, 87, 119–122].”
Essential Oils and Antifungal Activity (2017, background): “Thus, EOs can play a role in mediating the interactions of plants with the environment [4].”
History, presence and perspective of using plant extracts as commercial botanical insecticides and farm products for protection against insects – a review (2016, background): “In addition, some EOs exhibit significant repellent effects against various species of insects including vectors (Isman 2006; Bakkali et al. 2008; Pavela 2011b, c).”
Antimicrobial Properties of Plant Essential Oils against Human Pathogens and Their Mode of Action: An Updated Review (2016, background): “The major component (∼90%) of bioactive essential oils is constituted of monoterpenes [103].”
Essential oils of Lippia sidoides and Mentha piperita against monogenean parasites and their influence on the hematology of Nile tilapia (2016, background): “sidoides was the monoterpene thymol in which has been confirmed its antibacterial and antiparasitic potential (Bakkali et al., 2008; Oliveira et al., 2009).”