Plants naturally produce bioactive compounds along with many secondary metabolites which serve as defensive chemical against herbivorers including insect pests. One group of these phytochemicals are the ‘Essential Oils’ (EO's), which possess an extensive range of biological activity especially insecticidal and insect repellents. This review provides a comprehensive viewpoint on potential modes of action of biosafety plant derived Essential Oils (EO's) along with their principal chemical derivatives against larvae and adult mosquito vectors of dengue virus. The development and use of Essential Oils (EO's) effectively applied in small rural communities provides an enormous potential for low cost effective management of insect vectors of human pathogens which cause disease.

植物自然产生具有生物活性的化合物以及许多次生代谢产物，这些代谢产物可作为针对除草剂（包括害虫）的防御性化学物质。这些植物化学物质中的一组是“精油”（EO's），它具有广泛的生物活性，尤其是杀虫和驱虫剂。这篇综述提供了关于生物安全植物衍生的香精油（EO's）及其主要化学衍生物对付幼虫和登革热病毒成蚊载体的潜在作用方式的综合观点。有效地用于农村小社区的精油（EO's）的开发和使用为低成本有效地管理引起疾病的人类病原体的昆虫媒介提供了巨大的潜力。