Common commercial pesticides have adverse impacts on human health and the environment, yet natural insecticides derived from glandular trichomes have been shown to effectively terminate pests in a safe manner. The purpose of this research is to determine if the glandular trichome containing matter of mint Mentha and basil Ocimum basilcum have a significant effect on pest mortality and movement, specifically on the invasive genus of ants Pogonomyrmex. I hypothesized that because mint and basil contain the poisonous bodies of glandular trichomes, they will serve as successful insecticides against ants. A study on ant mortality when exposed to trichome leaves mint or basil was conducted; the ants were each placed in a petri dish containing leaf discs from mint or basil. Ant mortality was recorded over ninety-six hours, and leaf discs have a surface area of 0.2cm2. Fisher Exact Test analysis indicates that the leaves did not have an impact on ant mortality. Because the leaf discs did not appear to have a significant impact on ant mortality, research was then focused on the repellency of the leaf discs. For the study on the repellency of glandular trichome containing leaf discs, ants were placed in an apparatus consisting of two choice chambers, and one chamber held leaf discs. Over five minutes, in one minute intervals, the number of ants were counted in both chambers. Chi-square analysis that revealed the ants significantly avoided the chamber with the leaf discs, and the total sample size of five hundred ants in the study implies that mint and basil leaves are effective ant repellents. Analysis of further research suggests that limited numbers of leaf discs are capable of deterring substantial amounts of ants yet reduce in effectiveness over time, and implies that mint may be a better repellent than basil. To establish if the number of trichomes per disc correlates with repellency, the number of visible trichomes per leaf disc of mint or basil was observed using high-quality cameras and averaged at eleven trichomes per mint leaf disc and twenty trichomes per basil leaf disc. Standard deviation from the mean number of glandular trichomes for either mint or basil was relatively large. The data on the number of trichomes per leaf disc suggests that the contents of the glandular trichomes may have a more significant impact on leaf repellency than the amount of trichomes as mint with less trichomes per disc had a greater average repellency than basil. Future studies could research the insecticidal abilities of concentrated amounts of glandular trichomes from mint and basil on pests in agricultural or living environments and identify the chemicals within each plant' s glandular trichomes. The effects of other glandular trichome containing plants like lavender, oregano, or thyme on invasive species could also be studied.