Mosquitoes are serious human disease causing insects which transmit many dreadful diseases and therefore they are considered as 'public enemy number one'. 1-2 They are contributing as major public health issues by transmitting many life threatening diseases like malaria, dengue, chikungunya, filariasis, encephalitis, yellow fever and West Nile fever in almost all developed and developing countries of world. 3-4 Anopheles stephensi is a primary vector for malaria whereas, Aedes aegypti is responsible for causing dengue as well as chikungunya mainly in Asian countries including India. 5-6 Malaria caused by An. stephensi has become a major contribution in India and are particularly transmitting in the urban and industrial area. 7-8 In other hands, more than 70,000 and 18,000 cases of dengue and chikungunya, respectively are reported in India caused by Ae. aegypti. 9 Many control majors (environmental sanitation, epide miological, surveillance, laboratory and research support and education) are available to check against the vectors, those are responsible for spreading the different life threatening disease. 10 Moreover, synthetic insecticides are applied to control the agents but have
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