The summer season is accompanied by an increased incidence of diptera in livestock farming. The insect is a vector of many diseases and in high frequencies reduce milk and meat production. Significant economic losses in cattle breeding are mainly caused by cosmopolitan synanthropic and synbovine species Musca domestica, Stomoxys calcitrans and Haematobia irritatans. An alternative way of controlling insects without negative affecting health and the environment is the application of the herbal preparations containing repellent essential oils. Formulated mixture of essential oils Mentha x piperita, Pelargonium sp. and Nepeta cataria and essential oils Cymbopogon citratus, Cymbopogon nardus and Eucalyptus globulus were able to repel insects for 6 hours with 87% and 73% efficacy on cattle.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:427791 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Mašláňová, Hana |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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