Mosquitoes are the most important vectors of diseases and nuisance insects. Blood feeding female mosquitoes have been implicated in the transmission of many diseases. There are many reports revealed that some plant-derived are considered non-toxic, alternative insect repellents for humans. Vetiver compounds were assessed as repellent mosquito vectors. Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Culex quequinfasciatus were testes behavior responses with vetiver compounds through the High Throughput Screening System (HITSS). Results indicated the three mosquito species exhibited significantly different contact irritant and non-contact repellency escape responses between treatment and control for all tested. We conclude that the pure compounds from vetiver could potentially be developed as promising plant based repellents fight against the bite of mosquitoes. This effect needs, however, a peculiar formulation to fix them on the human skin.

Comparative behavioral responses of Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Culex quequinfasciatus to plants base repellent of vetiver compounds

254th National Meeting (2017)

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