Musca domestica laboratory susceptibility to three ethnobotanical culinary plants

作者：El Zayyat Elham A; Soliman Mohammed I; Elleboudy Noha A^*; Ofaa Shaimaa E

来源：Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2015, 22(20): 15844-15852.

DOI：10.1007/s11356-015-4796-9

• Musca domestica
• Mentha cervina
• Ocimum basilicum
• Coriandrum sativum
• Botanical insecticides

Throughout history, synanthropic Musca domestica had remained a worldwide problem whenever poor sanitation and bad hygienic conditions exists. Houseflies growing resistance to chemical insecticides are a rising environmental problem that necessitates search for alternatives. Mentha cervina, Ocimum basilicum, and Coriandrum sativum were tested for bioactivity on M. domestica adults and larvae. They are culinary Mediterranean plants. In adulticidal bioassay, using both CDC bottles and fumigation techniques, basil was the most effective extract with LC50 1.074 and 34.996 g/L, respectively. Concerning larvicidal bioassay by fumigation technique, coriander had the highest toxicity index with LC50 29.521 g/L. In both dipping and feeding technique, basil had the highest toxicity with LC50 32.643 and 0.749 g/L, respectively. Basil showed the highest toxicity results in four out of the five models tested followed by coriander then mint; this result highlights the potentiality of basil as a green insecticide in management of flies and opens new insight in the industrialization of basil-based fly control products.

• 出版日期2015-10
• 单位河北医科大学