Investigatory Project
Science Investigatory Project
EVALUATION OF EUPHORBIA PLANT USED AS INSECTICIDE AGAINST DOMESTIC BUGS
INTRODUCTION:
These days, people can’t oppose the boosting of the countless pest that disturbs our daily habits. That’s why we made a product that could be the answer for this problem that we all face. By mixing-up the three main elements of the by-product, the garlic, chili pepper, and Euphorbia, we come up to put up an alternative botanical insecticide that can kill harmful insects such as cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes and other plant insects. Even though there are hundreds of problems out there that is still unsolved, we choose this problem because this is one of the problems people really can’t solved quickly and could make houses “pest-free”.
Background of the Study:
Our all-natural insecticide derived from different plants could kill insect and pest anywhere, inside or outside of our home.
Talking about the main ingredients, the garlic, that was used throughout recorded history for both culinary and medicinal purposes. Aside from using garlic as a flavoring, it could also be a benefit to make insecticides. It has a powerful stimulating odor or flavor that mellows and sweetens considerably with cooking. The property of the garlic that was considered as an effective force that can kill pests is its allicin. But, allicin is not seen in the garlic on its natural state, when chopped or crushed, the enzyme alliinase acts on the chemical alliin converting it to allicin. Alliin is an amino acid that does not build proteins. Alliinase has been demonstrated to be irreversibly deactivated below a pH of 3; as such, allicin is generally not produced in the body from consumed fresh or powdered garlic. Thus, it could kill insects because of its smell. Insects don’t like the smell of the garlic, which humans also dislike too. Being a strongly oxidizing compound, it protects garlic from attack by
EVALUATION OF EUPHORBIA PLANT USED AS INSECTICIDE AGAINST DOMESTIC BUGS
INTRODUCTION:
These days, people can’t oppose the boosting of the countless pest that disturbs our daily habits. That’s why we made a product that could be the answer for this problem that we all face. By mixing-up the three main elements of the by-product, the garlic, chili pepper, and Euphorbia, we come up to put up an alternative botanical insecticide that can kill harmful insects such as cockroaches, flies, mosquitoes and other plant insects. Even though there are hundreds of problems out there that is still unsolved, we choose this problem because this is one of the problems people really can’t solved quickly and could make houses “pest-free”.
Background of the Study:
Our all-natural insecticide derived from different plants could kill insect and pest anywhere, inside or outside of our home.
Talking about the main ingredients, the garlic, that was used throughout recorded history for both culinary and medicinal purposes. Aside from using garlic as a flavoring, it could also be a benefit to make insecticides. It has a powerful stimulating odor or flavor that mellows and sweetens considerably with cooking. The property of the garlic that was considered as an effective force that can kill pests is its allicin. But, allicin is not seen in the garlic on its natural state, when chopped or crushed, the enzyme alliinase acts on the chemical alliin converting it to allicin. Alliin is an amino acid that does not build proteins. Alliinase has been demonstrated to be irreversibly deactivated below a pH of 3; as such, allicin is generally not produced in the body from consumed fresh or powdered garlic. Thus, it could kill insects because of its smell. Insects don’t like the smell of the garlic, which humans also dislike too. Being a strongly oxidizing compound, it protects garlic from attack by
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