Table 3.

Larvicidal activity of chitosan encapsulation of thyme oil nanoemulsion against III instar larvae of Anopheles stephensi, Aedes aegypti and Culex tritaeniorhynchus after 24 h and 48 h.

Mosquito sp.	Time (h)	Equation	LC50 (ppm) (LFL-UFL)	LC90 (ppm) (LFL-UFL)	chi square
A. stephensi	24	y = 1.824x + 2.67	18.88 (12.98–27.21)	95.23 (55.48–299.5)	2.51
	48	y = 1.97x + 2.887	11.82 (7.65–16.37)	52.87 (34.19–123.8)	3.39
A. aegypti	24	y = 1.737x + 2.35	33.63 (23.29–53.2)	183.8 (97.3–729.2)	1.81
	48	y = 1.617x + 2.839	21.66 (14.18–32.65)	134.28 (72.96–493.5)	3.07
C. tritaeniorhynchus	24	y = 2.039x + 1.99	29.8 (19.63–41.13)	126.79 (83.35–278.9)	2.59
	48	y = 2.409x + 2.125	15.59 (9.92–21.67)	53.08 (37.7–87.84)	1.5

LFL Lower fiducial limit, UFL Upper fiducial limit.