Plant extracts and essential oils have been showing potential for use as acaricides. Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the brown tick, mainly parasitizes dogs is responsible pathogens transmission. The insecticidal acaricidal activity of oil (EO) Syzygium aromaticum eugenol already reported, however against R. sanguineus lacked. To evaluate S. EO larvae in vitro assays were performed using larval...

The physic nut shrub, Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae), has been considered as a "miracle tree", particularly as a source of alternate fuel. Various extracts of the plant have been reported to have insecticidal/acaricidal or molluscicidal/anthelminthic activities on vectors of medical or veterinary interest or on agricultural or non-agricultural pests. Among those extracts, the phorbol ester fra...