Innate responses in animals can be modulated by experience. Disturbed adults of the triatomine bug Triatoma infestans release an alarm pheromone (AP) that elicits an escape response in conspecific larvae. The main component of this AP, the isobutyric acid (IsoAc), alone has already shown to generate an escape response in this species. However, not much is known about the modulation of this beha...

Essential oils of eight plants, selected after an ethnobotanical survey conducted in Bukusu community in Bungoma County, western Kenya (Tagetes minuta, Tithonia diversifolia, Juniperus procera, Solanecio mannii, Senna didymobotrya, Lantana camara, Securidaca longepedunculata, and Hoslundia opposita), were initially screened (at two doses) for their repellence against brown ear tick, Rhipicephal...

Currently, frequent oil spill accidents caused by transportation, storage, and usage may lead to extensive damage marine ecosystems. Effective methods for spillage recovery from offshore environments are still urgently in demand. A superhydrophobic sponge (MS@PVC@SiO2) was obtained via a facile two-step method rapid adsorption, piece of novel collection equipment loaded with MS@PVC@SiO2 develop...

Aphids are serious pests of a wide range agricultural crops, including pomegranates and grapevines. In addition, due to the negative environmental impacts chemical insecticides, these developing important resistance against aphicides. Therefore, one alternative method control aphids is use essential oils (EO). The present study aimed evaluate insecticidal activity Citrus aurantium C. reticulata...

Abstract Aims This study aims to identify some of the key soil-related factors that underpin distribution plant communities and provide a more comprehensive understanding an old, climatically buffered infertile landscape including kwongkan habitats. We investigate pedological, topographical hydrological correlates abundance floristic community within Alison Baird Reserve, floristically diverse,...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are hazardous to the environment and human health. Thus, tremendous effort has gone into developing effective/efficient techniques for separation of VOCs from their aqueous mixtures. In this work, a simple versatile strategy was proposed fabricate new material hydrophobic VOC separations, in which self-assembling hydrogel consisting TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nan...

background: aedes aegypti mosquito is responsible for transmitting human diseases like dengue and chikungunya. personal or space protection with insect repellents is a practical approach to reducing human mosquito contact, thereby minimizing disease transmission. essential oils are natural volatile substances from plants used as protective measure against blood-sucking mosquitoes. methods: twen...

Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) is an important culinary herb and essential oil source widely recognized worldwide. The of the plant beneficial for medicinal uses, it has many biological activities such as insect repellent, larvicidal, bactericidal. This study aimed to investigate basil's its chemical composition repellent activity. basil was extracted from fresh leaves by steam distillation method...

In this work, a slippery liquid-infused silver-polytetrafluoroethylene (AgFP) coating was fabricated via spontaneous polycondensation of 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane (PFOTES) onto an electroless AgF sublayer. The AgFP demonstrated great stability and superior repellence against liquids with wide range surface tensions. anti-biofouling properties were investigated by adsorption Esch...