A reflection on tick control and the potential role of botanical products in integrated management practices

Tick infestations and tick-borne diseases continue to be the leading causes of loss in livestock revenue, particularly developing countries, despite prevalent use synthetic acaricides. Research on plants as alternative sources anti-arthropod agents has received attention from many researchers recent past. This interest is mainly motivated by compelling need move away over-reliance chemicals, which have harmful effects environment livestock. While been shown possess anti-tick properties, such studies are main laboratory-based thus their cannot accounted for natural environments. Furthermore, knowledge mechanisms plant extracts impact ticks sparse not coordinated ease reference. The literature explored this study was collected indices included University South Africa (UNISA) library database following keyword searches used tick control methods reviews. article provides a consolidation properties plant-based material prospects being integrated with current methods.