Catmint oil and hydrogenated catmint oil were evaluated as repellents for adult Tribolium casteneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), the red flour beetle, and T. confusum (DuVal), the confused flour beetle, using both a traditional method of visual assessment of distribution and a video recording method to determine movement patterns of individual insects. Visual assessments of distributio...

Multi circle hydroponic construction for vegetable and greens cultivation are wide spread supported of leader investors all over the world because their economic position ecologic status. Cultivation aromatic medicinal plants at multi is usually supplemented study biochemical composition above parts after cultivation. The goal is: analysis some construction. Objects - from Lamiaceae-family: Mon...

Essential oil (EO) obtained by hydrodistillation in a Clevenger-type apparatus from aerial parts of Nepeta cataria L. var. citriodora (Becker), cultivated Serbia was subjected to gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) determine the composition. Furthermore, N. essential wastested its antimicrobial, antioxidant, antihyperglycemic and anti-inflammatory activities vitro.The antimicrobial act...

Recently, catnip, Nepeta cataria L. (Lamiaceae), essential oil has been formulated and marketed as an alternative repellent for protection against biting arthropods by several vendors. We isolated the major active components of catnip oil, E,Z- and Z,E-nepetalactone, and quantitatively measured their antibiting efficacy compared with the repellents N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide (deet) and chira...