Table 2.

Insecticidal activity obtained by the contact toxicity method on different fractions of Euphorbia Aellennii^a

Name of Insect	% Mortality
	Positive control	Negative control	E2 b	E3	E4	E5
Triboliumcastaneum	100	0	0	0	0	0
Rhyzoperthadominica	100	0	45	20	20	0
Callosbruchusanalis	100	0	0	0	0	0

^aStandard drug: Premethrine; concentraion of sample = 1019 μg/cm² and premethrine = 239 μg/cm²; number of replicates = 3.

^bChloroform (E2), ethyl acetate (E3), n-butanolic (E4) and aqueous (E5) fractions.