{"id":354,"date":"2011-07-04T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=354"},"modified":"2013-10-03T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T10:40:11","slug":"castor-oil-targetting-mosquito-larvae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2011\/07\/castor-oil-targetting-mosquito-larvae\/","title":{"rendered":"Castor oil targetting mosquito larvae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The castor oil plant, which is used to make laxatives, now possibly holds the key to controlling the mosquito menace in a \u2018green\u2019 way.<\/p>\n<p>A study conducted by the department of zoonosis at Haffkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing, India, has revealed that castor oil can be used to kill mosquito larvae.<\/p>\n<p>In laboratory tests, the castor seed oil extract was able to kill 50% of the larvae in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the various herbal plants that we tested, the oil extract from the seed of the castor plant showed the best results for larvicidal [killing larvae] activity as well as inhibiting growth of Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae,\u201d said Dr Saroj Bapna, scientific officer of the department.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/India-news\/Mumbai\/Castor-oil-can-take-sting-out-of-mosquito-menace\/Article1-715045.aspx\">http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/India-news\/Mumbai\/Castor-oil-can-take-sting-out-of-mosquito-menace\/Article1-715045.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The castor oil plant, which is used to make laxatives, now possibly holds the key to controlling the mosquito menace in a \u2018green\u2019 way. A study conducted by the department of zoonosis at Haffkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2011\/07\/castor-oil-targetting-mosquito-larvae\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-research","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}