Evaluating Natural Larvicides: Peppermint and Pepper Extracts versus Temephos on Aedes aegypti and Anopheles stephensi Larvae Under Laboratory Conditions
Parisa Mahdevar, Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi, Hassan Vatandoost, Mohammad Mahdi Sedaghat, Kamal Azam, Mahnaz Khanavi, Tahereh Sadat Asgarian · 2025
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Mahdevar, Moosa-Kazemi, Vatandoost and colleagues tested plant extracts against mosquito larvae in the lab in 2025. They compared peppermint and pepper extracts with temephos, the standard larvicide, on Aedes aegypti and Anopheles stephensi.
Peppermint extract killed half the Anopheles larvae at 4.047 parts per million and half the Aedes larvae at 9.9. Pepper extract needed somewhat higher doses. Temephos, by contrast, worked at about 0.002 to 0.003 parts per million, far below either extract. The team calls the plant results a starting point only, since formulation, persistence, safety for other species and field performance all remain untested.
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| CREATOR | Parisa Mahdevar, Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi, Hassan Vatandoost, Mohammad Mahdi Sedaghat, Kamal Azam, Mahnaz Khanavi, Tahereh Sadat Asgarian |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |