| mosquito larvicidal and ovicidal activity of puffer fish extracts against anopheles stephensi, culex quinquefasciatus and aedes aegypti (diptera: culicidae). | the extracts of liver (le), ovary (oe), skin (se) and muscle (me) tissues of four species of puffer fishes viz., arothron hispidus, lagocephalus inermis, lagocephalus scleratus and chelonodon patoca were evaluated against larvae and eggs of three mosquito vectors, anopheles stephensi, culex quinquefasciatus and aedes aegypti. the lc50 values were 1194.26, 1382.73 (le); 1421.42, 1982.73 (oe); 7116.86, 15038.98 (me) and 10817.8 ppm (se) for an. stephensi and cx. quinquefasciatus respectively for a ... | 2013 | 23665705 |