PRODUCTION OF MOSQUITOE REPELLANTS INSECTICIDES (MOSQUITOE COIL) USING ORANGE PEELS (Cestrum)

PRODUCTION OF MOSQUITOE REPELLANTS INSECTICIDES (MOSQUITOE COIL) USING ORANGE PEELS (Cestrum)

TABLE OF CONTENT
CONTENT                                                                            

Title page                                                                              

Declaration                                                                                              

Certification                                                                                     

Dedication                                                                                                

Acknowledgment                                                                                    

Table of content                                                                            

Abstract                                                                                           

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION                                                                                     

1.0    INSECTICIDES (General Overview)                                  

INORGANIC, NATURAL AND ORGANIC INSECTICIDES.10

1.4.1 HOW MOSQUITO COILS WORK                                      

1.4.2 HOW TO USE MOSQUITO COILS                                    

1.4.3 ADVANTAGES OF USING A MOSQUITO COIL             

1.4.4 DISADVANTAGES OF USING MOSQUITO COILS              

1.5.1 IDENTIFICATION                                                                

1.5.2 USES OF CITRUS SINENSIS                                            

1.5.3 FOOD VALUE.                                                                     

1.5.4 ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE/USES                                   

1.5.5 MEDICAL USES/IMPORTANCE                                       
CHAPTER TWO

2.2    SOURCE OF MATERIALS                                                 

2.3    SAMPLE PREPARATION                                                  

2.3.1 PREPARATION OF RANGE PEELS                                

2.3.2 PREPARATION OF SAW-DUST                                       

2.3.3 PREPARATION OF THE STARCH                                   

2.4    PREPARATION OF THE DOUGH                                              
CHAPTER THREE

3.0    RESULTS                                                                             

TABLE 3.1 RESULT OF THE BURNING TIME AND

EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COIL                                      
CHAPTER FOUR

DISCUSSION                                                                                 

CONCLUSION                                                                               

REFERENCES                                                                              

 ABSTRACT

Mosquito repellents are substances that can be used to repel mosquitoes which is a vector that transmits malaria. A typical example of a mosquito repellent is mosquito coil which drives away mosquito when it is ignited. The smoke that is emitted from burning a mosquito coil contains active ingredients used to prevent mosquito from biting particularly during the hour of sleep having been designed to burn for hours. These active ingredients have known to act as repellent agent which cause a distasteful environment for the mosquito and act as agents of immobilization which disturbs the food searching mechanism of the mosquito. Orange peels (Cestrum) contains oil known as Limonene oil which has a  lethal effect on mosquitoes and some other insects. It can be used as active ingredient to produce mosquito coil, which when ignited, will repel mosquitoes within the limits of the smoke.

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