It's not food, so why would cats chew on catnip and silver vine? Scientists have found cats are improving the plants' mosquito repellent by damaging the leaves in a specific way.
Read the blog post at: https://botany.one/2022/06/why-do-cats-act-so-strangely-around-catnip/
Read the original article at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104455