SCREENING OF LOCAL PLANT SPECIES FOR LARVICIDAL ACTIVITY

Pharmacy

Mosquitoes have become one of the major public health problems all around the world. Control measures currently used are directed against only one or some of the most important species and aimed at the adults or the larvae. Mosquito control is a difficult task and has become more difficult; because of variety of factors including the development of insecticide resistance and worry over environmental pollution and many of them are immune-suppressants. Environmental protection agencies have banned or placed severe obligations on the use of many pesticides which were formerly used in mosquito control programs. One possible strategy is the rational localization of bioactive products from phytochemicals by precisely exploring the global floral biodiversity. Biologically active plant materials have attracted considerable relevance in mosquito control catalogue in the modern times. The present study deals with the screening of locally available plants for mosquito larvicidal properties such as Argemone mexicana L., Cassia glauca Lamk., Dendrocalamus strictus Nees., Leucas martinicensis (Jacq.) R. Br., Pongamia pinnata(L.) Pierre and Solanum xanthocarpum Schard & Wendl

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