[Aim] The tobacco whitefly, Bemisia tabaci is an important insect pest on eggplant and other vegetables and has developed strong resistance to commonly used chemical pesticides. This directed more attention to the repellent effect of non-preferred host plants as a protective measure against B. tabaci.[Method] The olfactory and visual responses of B. tabaci were determined on six vegetables:Apium graveolens, Allium tuberosum, Chrysanthemum coronarium, Coriandrum sativum, Allium fistulosum and Allium sativum. The relative selectivity of B. tabaci to the tested vegetables was determined by the method of olfactory selectivity.[Result] B. tabaci showed low preference for these plants in indoor selective assays. A. graveolens was the least preferred, followed by A. tuberosum, followed by the other vegetables in the sequence:C. coronarium > C. sativum > A. fistulosum > A. sativum; olfactory selectivity to A. graveolens was the lowest, only 13.0%, followed by A. tuberosum (25.5%), A. sativum (37.0%), A. fistulosum (39.6%), C. sativum (40.2%) and C. coronarium (44.8%); the visual selectivity of B. tabaci was also different, with A. graveolens and A. tuberosum being the lowest. On the basis of the laboratory experimetns, A. graveolens, A. tuberosum and A. fistulosum were selected for field tests. A. graveolens had the best repellent effect against B. tabaci on bell pepper plots(90.6% repellency), followed by A. tuberosum (86.5%).[Conclusion] A. graveolens and A. tuberosum are candicate repellent plants against B. tabaci.