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. 2015 Aug 7;15(1):116. doi: 10.1093/jisesa/iev093

Table 4.

Repellent activity of EOs on 10th-instar T. molitor

EO Repellence index after 12 h treatment (%) (±SE)
Repellence index after 24 h treatment (%) (± SE)
Repellence index after 48 h treatment (%) (± SE)
300a 600 900 300 600 900 300 600 900
C. limonum 71.9 ± 0.1 bb 77.7 ± 4.0 b 89.9 ± 1.9 a 62.2 ± 3.0 b 68.3 ± 4.2 b 83.3 ± 1.9 a 53.7 ± 2.2 a 63.9 ± 3.6 b 75.0 ± 2.9 a
Cy. citratus 41.8 ± 2.9 c 51.4 ± 2.9 c 63.1 ± 3.9 b 35.1 ± 4.5 c 44.5 ± 2.2 c 55.0 ± 3.5 b 28.4 ± 4.5 b 37.1 ± 2.0 c 45.7 ± 2.8 b
L. cubeba 83.1 ± 1.8 a 90.0 ± 1.9 a 95.1 ± 1.0 a 73.5 ± 2.1 a 80.6 ± 0.6 a 88.5 ± 1.0 a 59.4 ± 5.3 a 71.2 ± 1.1 a 77.3 ± 3.7 a
M. fragrans 37.7 ± 1.2 c 51.7 ± 2.5 c 59.1 ± 3.0 b 31.6 ± 1.0 c 41.8 ± 1.8 c 47.6 ± 2.8 c 24.3 ± 3.0 b 33.7 ± 2.3 c 41.33 ± 1.3 b
Control 0 d 0 d 0 c 0 d 0 d 0 d 0 c 0 d 0 c
F4,10 110.9 173.5 252.0 120.4 183.2 255.8 46.5 171.0 156.2
P <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001

a µg/cm2 filter paper.

b Means within a column followed by the different letter differ significantly (P < 0.05) according to analysis of variance (ANOVA). The number of insects tested for each treatment was 90.