Laboratory evaluation of citronella, picaridin, and deet repellents against psorophora ciliata and Psorophora howardii

Jodi M. Scott; Tanjim Hossain; Claudia Davidson; Michael L. Smith; Rui De Xue

doi:10.2987/13-6368.1

Laboratory evaluation of citronella, picaridin, and deet repellents against psorophora ciliata and Psorophora howardii

Jodi M. Scott^*, Tanjim Hossain, Claudia Davidson, Michael L. Smith, Rui De Xue

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Abstract

Commercial formulations of 3 repellents: OFF® Active (active ingredient AI 15% N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide deet), OFF® Family Care (AI 5% picaridin), and CVS Pharmacy Fresh Insect Repellent® (AI 10% citronella, 2% lauryl sulfate, and 0.2% potassium sorbate) were evaluated to determine the mean protection time provided against the large floodwater mosquitoes, Psorophora ciliata and Ps. howardii. Each of these products contained different active ingredients and displayed different protection times, but repellency was in accordance with each product's label reapplication times/repellency durations. The CVS Pharmacy Fresh Insect Repellent provided the least protection (2 h and 26 min), followed by OFF Family Care (3 h and 46 min). OFF Active afforded the longest protection (5 h and 41 min), which was significantly higher than the other treatments (P < 0.001).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	136-137
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2987/13-6368.1
State	Published - Jun 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Psorophora ciliata
Psorophora howardii
citronella
deet
picaridin

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Laboratory evaluation of citronella, picaridin, and deet repellents against psorophora ciliata and Psorophora howardii

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