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| Title: | Insecticides |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | The repellent activity of the essential oil of the catmint plant, Nepeta cataria (Lamiaceae), and the main iridoid compounds (4aS,7S,7aR) and (4aS,7S,7aS)-nepetalactone, was assessed against (i) major Afro-tropical pathogen vector mosquitoes, i.e. the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae s.s. and the Southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, using a World Health Organisation (WHO)-approvedtopical application bioassay (ii) the brown ear tick, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, using a climbing repellency assay, and (iii) the red poultry mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, using field trapping experiments. |
| Page(s): | 94-95 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| Source: | NPARR Vol.2(2) [April 2011]
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