Mosquitoes transmit serious human diseases, causing millions of deaths every year. Use of synthetic insecticides to control vector mosquitoes has caused physiological resistance and adverse environmental effects in addition to high operational cost. Insecticides of botanical origin may serve as suitable alternative biocontrol techniques in the future. The present investigations were made to eva...

Despite all of the control approaches, tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause death worldwide and one-third world’s population infected with TB. Plant-derived medicines have been used in traditional medicinal system for treatment many ailments worldwide. From last number years, plants advantageous different type diseases producing human beings. The present aim to carry out evaluation antimycobacter...

The pink hibiscus mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), is a highly polyphagous pest that invaded southern Florida in 2002 and is now widely established throughout most of the state. Although Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. is a preferred and economically important host of M. hirsutus, the susceptibility and expression of feeding symptoms by different cultivars have not been evaluated. Cultivar...