Simple Summary Mosquito-borne diseases cause millions of deaths each year. There has
been an increase in the use of insecticides to combat disease transmission caused by …

Mosquitoes are a serious threat to the society, acting as vector to several dreadful diseases.
Mosquito management programes profoundly depend on the routine of chemical …

In the last few years more and more studies on the biological properties of essential oils
have been published and it seemed worthwhile to compile the studies of 2009, 2008 and the …

The recent outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases, such as chikungunya and Zika virus,
highlighted the pivotal importance of effective mosquito control programs. Nowadays …

Apiaceae is a family encompassing medicinal and aromatic plants. They produce essential
oils (EOs) inside oil canals, known as ducts and vittae, which occur in their vegetative and …

This study was conducted to attain an alternate plant essential oil (EO) based mosquito
larvicide against the dengue vector Aedes aegypti. Here three plants were selected based …

Trachyspermum ammi (Apiaceae) is a plant with a good reputation in the traditional Persian
and Ayurvedic medicine. The hydrodistilled essential oil from the fruits of T. ammi, known as …

Objective To assess the larvicidal and repellent potential of the essential oil extracted from
the leaves of peppermint plant, Mentha piperita (M. piperita) against the larval and adult …

Ocimum gratissimum L.(white wild basil) is an aromatic herb cultivated in Western Africa for
culinary and pest control purposes. The current research evaluated the insecticidal activity of …

Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are the main olfactory proteins of mosquitoes, and their
structures have been widely explored to develop new repellents. In the present study, we …