Amandha Kaiser da Silva¹ , Eduardo Jose de Arruda¹ , Gustavo Graciano Fonseca² , Cláudio Teodoro de Carvalho¹ , Cicera Maria da Silva¹ , Paulo César Cavalcante Vila Nova³ , Cleusa Rocha Garcia Gaban³ , Isaías Cabrini¹

1. Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology - Federal University of Grande Dourados, Dourados, Brazil
2. Faculty of Food Engineering - Federal University of Grande Dourados, Dourados, Brazil
3. Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
Author    Correspondence author
Journal of Mosquito Research, 2015, Vol. 5, No. 6   doi: 10.5376/jmr.2015.05.0006
Received: 02 Mar., 2015    Accepted: 18 Apr., 2015    Published: 22 May, 2015

This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Silva et al., 2015, Evaluation of toxicity of Bordeaux Mixture in Aedes aegypti larvae (L. 1672) (Diptera: Culicidae) and Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, Journal of Mosquito Research, Vol.5, No.6 1-8 (doi: 10.5376/jmr.2015.05.0006)

Dengue is an infectious disease transmitted by the bite of female Aedes aegypti during blood feeding, for continuity of the reproduction process. Population mosquito control has been carried out for decades, through the intensive use of conventional insecticides. The Bordeaux Mixture (BM) is a colloidal substance with insecticidal activity, bactericidal, fungicidal and molluscicide and can act comprehensively to control immature forms of A. aegypti, in addition to altering the physical and chemical conditions in the breeding and food chain insect. The values for the lethal concentrations of BM were CL₁₀ 1.05 mg L^-1 (confidence interval 0.70 - 1.34), LC₅₀ 3.06 mg L^-1 (2.73 - 3.35) and LC₉₀ 8.94 mg L^-1 (7.42 - 11.92). The results of this study allow us to propose the BM as insecticidal potential for population control insect vectors.

Biological activity; Aedes aegypti; Dengue; Cooper; Chemical control; Brazil