Chemical Composition and Acaricidal Activity of Essential Oil of Lavandula dentata L. on Engorged Females of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Acari: Ixodidae).
Cicera Maria de Oliveira XavierEduardo Henrique Amorim SilvaIvaldo Victor Mota de SiqueiraLucia Oliveira de MacedoVanderson Barbosa BernardoHenrique Goulart FonsecaAntonio Euzebio Goulart SantanaRafael Antonio Nascimento RamosPedro Gregório Vieira AquinoGílcia Aparecida de CarvalhoPublished in: Acta parasitologica (2024)
The data revealed that L. dentata essential oil possesses effective pharmacological properties against R. (B.) microplus and could be used for tick control following in vivo evaluation, thus contributing to mitigating the negative impacts of synthetic acaricide use.