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David W. Hagstrum, Mir S. Mulla, Petroleum Oils as Mosquito Larvicides and Pupicides. I. Correlation of Physiochemical Properties with Biological Activity, Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 61, Issue 1, 1 February 1968, Pages 220–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/61.1.220
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Abstract
The literature on the direct effects of petroleum oil, such as toxicity and suffocation, is reviewed. Laboratory evaluations were made against the southern house mosquito, Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus Say. Aromatic and paraffin content, boiling range, and viscosity of petroleum oils affected parricidal and suicidal activity indirectly by influencing the rate at which area covered by oil film was reduced by evaporation of paraffin oils or contraction of aromatic oils into lenses or globules. The rate of reduction of the area covered as film aged was shown to he correlated with the rate of reduction of parricidal and suicidal activity. The same effect was achieved by initially ally treating only a small portion of the surface. Frames were used to divide the surface into 2 sections and only 1 section, representing 50 or 75% of the total surface area, was treated.