Abstract Culex mosquitos are important infectious diseases vectors in temperate and tropical regions of the World, affecting nearly 350 million people both developed developing countries. Our approach was to “recycle” well-established larvicide, by studying tablets, pellets granules as floating or sinking formulations, we found a method optimise use diflubenzuron against pipiens mosquitoes fiel...

Diflubenzuron (DFB, trade name dimilin 25 WP) is a chitin synthesis inhibitor widely used against forest insect pests in Algeria. Prior to implementation of these products as chemical agents for mosquito control, knowledge on their potential effects on non-target organisms and its behaviour in water are needed. Therefore, the present study was focused on DFB and aimed to use an HPLC procedure d...