Wool clothing attracts wool munching bugs, some insects the enjoy feasting on wool are moths, and carpet beetles. Yellows Attract Gnats, and mosquitos, aphids, and blacks attract deerflies, and horse flies.. Reflective mulch is used to blind aphids from seeing a Strawberry so I assumed it would blind them from seeing us too. There is even a new line of insect repelling clothes!
Not sure about plants ... but colors make a difference on homes. Some colors absorb particular wavelengths ... use the ones that get hot on window sills so flies won't rest on them.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.