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Use of Phytochemicals: A Promising and Eco-Friendly Approach for the Management of Mosquito Vector Populations

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From the last decades, research focuses on plant natural products to explore the insecticidal activity against mosquitoes. This is the modern challenge in parasitology. The main aimed is to reduce the frequent exploitation of synthetic insecticides by which mosquitoes become resistant. This triggers serious threats to human health and leads to loss of biodiversity. The use of plant extracts was started from ancient times for mosquito control. These are biodegradable, harmless, non-hazardous, cost effective, and easily available throughout the world. Phytochemicals are target-specific activities against mosquito’s vector of different species. Plants possess outstanding larvicidal activity with very low LC50and LC90 values against vectors of genera such as Culex, Aedes, and Anopheles. Furthermore, the effectiveness of pure compounds isolated from plant, mode, and mechanism of action as well as their influence on mosquito targeted species is still uncovered. On the other hand, still there are strong boundaries for the development of profitable mosquito larvicides, pupicides, ovicides, and adulticidal from plants to kill or repel mosquito. In this chapter, we focused on the current information on sources of phytochemicals and their mosquitocidal activity to reduce the mosquito population, larvicidal activity at various instar stage specificity.

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Pradhan, B., Behera, C., Nayak, R., Jena, M. (2020). Use of Phytochemicals: A Promising and Eco-Friendly Approach for the Management of Mosquito Vector Populations. In: Barik, T.K. (eds) Molecular Identification of Mosquito Vectors and Their Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9456-4_4

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