| dc.description.abstract | : The study was done to investigate the Mosquito repellency properties of the smoke of Lantana camara in
different solvents viz; methanol, ethyl acetate, ethanol and diethyl ether. Plant samples were dried, burned and
extracted using various solvents. The extracts were concentrated using a Rota vapor and various concentrations
ranging from 50ppm-1000ppm of the repellents were prepared and evaluated. Methanol extract at 400ppm
concentration significantly gave the highest protection against the bites of female Anopheles mosquito (P> 0.01) for
over 300 minutes. This extract yielded significantly the better protection time (P> 0.05). The methanol extract
seemed to have a steady repellency over a longer period than the rest of the extracts. The results from this study
shows that the plant Lantana camara can be used effectively to repel Anopheles mosquitoes, hence a great
achievement in the development of safe organic repellants to control transmission of malaria by female anopheles
mosquitoes. However, more research needs to be done to identify the specific compounds which are repelling the
mosquitoes their structures and also mode of action | en_US |
