Essential Oils and Their Formulations for the Control of Curculionidae Pests

Pesticides are widely used in producing food to control pests. However, it has been determined that synthetic pesticides present severe toxicity (residual), while they also result environmental contamination and development of high-level resistance some insect species. Due this, these susbtances have banned or restricted many countries, which reduced the number agrochemicals can be for pest control, particularly case crops exported green markets such as Europe Asia. Under this scenario, essential oils (EOs) being increasingly studied bioinsecticides because renewable, natural, biodegradable, non-persistent environment safe non-target organism humans. It EOs repellent, ovicidal, larvicidal, insecticidal effects against different types pests, but drawbacks due their high volatility low aqueous solubility. This mini-review focusses on Curculionidae current stabilization techniques, nanoencapsulation, prolog biocidal effect