“…As natural substances, botanic oils can be a viable alternative for control of insect pests. Botanical substances have advantages compared to synthetic insecticides, e.g., a lower chance of insect resistance development and a shorter half-life in the environment (Azevedo, dos Santos, Nere, da Silva Moura, & Gurgel, 2013;Marangoni, de Moura, & Garcia, 2013). Many botanical substances can have insecticidal activity which may adversely affect the biology of fruit flies (Nunes, Boff, dos Santos, Franco, & da Rosa, 2015;Daniel, 2014) by causing toxicity (Ghabbari et al, 2018;Daniel, 2014) which results in adult mortality (Vásquez-Morales et al, 2015).…”