Research Notes

• From Healthgarden, a research note on

Essential oils as potential adulticides against two populations of Aedes aegypti, the laboratory and natural field strains, in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. The short Abstract:

Essential oils derived from five plant species, celery (Apium graveolens), caraway (Carum carvi), zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), long pepper (Piper longum), and Chinese star anise (Illicium verum), were subjected to investigation of adulticidal activity against mosquito vectors. . . . The highest potential was established from caraway, followed by zedoary, celery, long pepper, and Chinese star anise. . .

So essential oils can kill adult mosquitos.