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21 February 2018 Insecticidal Activity of Lamiaceae Plant Essential Oils and Their Constituents Against Blattella germanica L. Adult
Hwa-Jeong Yeom, Hyo-Rim Lee, Sung-Chan Lee, Ji-Eun Lee, Seon-Mi Seo, Il-Kwon Park
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Abstract

The insecticidal activities of 13 Lamiaceae plant oils and their components against adult German cockroaches, Blattella germanica L. (Blattodea: Blattellidae), were evaluated using fumigant and contact bioassay. Among the tested oils, basil, pennyroyal, and spearmint showed the strongest insecticidal activities against adult B. germanica. Insecticidal activity of pennyroyal was 100% against male B. germanica at 1.25 mg concentration in fumigant bioassay. Basil and spearmint revealed 100% and 100% insecticidal activity against male B. germanica at 5 mg concentration, but their activities reduced to 80% and 25% at 2.5 mg concentration, respectively. In contact, toxicity bioassay, basil, pennyroyal, and spearmint oils exhibited 100%, 100%, and 98% mortality against female B. germanica at 1 mg/♀, respectively. Among the constituents identified in basil, pennyroyal, and spearmint oils, insecticidal activity of pulegone was the strongest against male and female B. germanica.

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Hwa-Jeong Yeom, Hyo-Rim Lee, Sung-Chan Lee, Ji-Eun Lee, Seon-Mi Seo, and Il-Kwon Park "Insecticidal Activity of Lamiaceae Plant Essential Oils and Their Constituents Against Blattella germanica L. Adult," Journal of Economic Entomology 111(2), 653-661, (21 February 2018). https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/tox378
Received: 10 October 2017; Accepted: 14 December 2017; Published: 21 February 2018
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KEYWORDS
Blattella germanica
fumigant and contact bioassay
insecticidal activity
Lamiaceae
pulegone
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