Bioefficacy of Selected Species of Plants against Larvicidal Activity and Cytotoxicity on the Regulation of Mosquito Population

Different types of diseases that affect humans and animals, such as dengue fever, filariasis, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, malaria, etc., are thought to be primarily transmitted by mosquitoes, which are responsible for thousands of fatalities each year worldwide. Controlling mosquito becomes essential because they cannot be eliminated. Today, there are numerouseffective techniques for lowering mosquitocidal activity, such as chemical, biological, and many others. Sometimes the efficacy of insecticides made from synthetic chemicals wanes. The use of an active toxic agent derived from plant is another method for controlling mosquitoes. This review offers a thorough examination of the effectiveness of plant chemicals in killing mosquitoes and the methods by which they achieve this, as documented in research papers from around the world. To find information, various online databases such as Google Scholar and Indian Journal of Entomology were utilized. 51 plant species were found to have the ability to kill mosquitoes.