Mosquitoes are vectors of dangerous pathogens spreading epidemics to millions of people and animals around the world (Abbas et al., 2014, 2018; Shaukat et al., 2019). Culex pipiens is the main vector of filariasis (Abdel-Shafi et al., 2016) and viral epidemics (Meegan et al., 1980; Selim et al., 2019).
Mosquito control is mainly focused on the use of repellents (Khater et al., 2019) and synthetic chemicals insecticides (Baz, 2013) but the emergence of insect resistance and environmental pollution have resulted from the misuse and overuse of pesticides. Therefore, developing alternative environmentally friendly strategies (Karthi et al., 2020) is an imperative need. Botanicals are a good parasiticide alternative (Fayaz et al., 2019; Khater et al., 2020; Zaman et al., 2020) because