chikungunya, dengue and yellow fever. Plant based essential oils may serve as good
alternatives to commercially available mosquito repellent, DEET. Steam distillation was used
for the extraction of essential oils from fresh collected aerial parts of plants viz Chenopodium
ambrosioides, Conyza sumatrensis, Erigeron canadensis, Eucalyptus camaldulensis,
Mentha spicata, Parthenium hysterophorus, and Tagetes minuta. The essential oils were …