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Musca domestica laboratory susceptibility to three ethnobotanical culinary plants

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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.

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Dr. Azza Abdel Fattah Mostafa, Professor of Insecticides, Research Institute of Medical Entomology, for her assistance during insect bioassay techniques. Also to Dr. Amany Samy El-hefny, senior researcher, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center for her assistance during plant extraction processes.

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  1. Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Abbasiya, Cairo, Egypt

    Elham A. El Zayyat, Noha A. Elleboudy & Shaimaa E. Ofaa

  2. Research Institute of Medical Entomology, Dokki, Egypt

    Mohammed I. Soliman

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El Zayyat, E.A., Soliman, M.I., Elleboudy, N.A. et al. Musca domestica laboratory susceptibility to three ethnobotanical culinary plants. Environ Sci Pollut Res 22, 15844–15852 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4796-9

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