“…Larvicidal and insecticidal activities have already been evaluated in EOs from C. sinensis, C. limon, C. grandis, C. aurantifolia, C. hystrix, C. maxima and C. medica (Araújo et al, 2016;Gomes et al, 2019;Sarma et al, 2017Sarma et al, , 2019Soonwera, 2015). High larvicidal activity could be due to the high limonene concentration (85.7%), a botanical insecticide which has been patented as an active agent of larvicidal formulations (Dias and Moraes, 2014).…”