In Vitro Evaluation of Ethanolic Extracts of Ageratum conyzoides and Artemisia absinthium against Cattle Tick, Rhipicephalus microplus

Table 1

Tick weight, percent mortality, egg weight, reproductive index (RI), and inhibition of oviposition (IO) of R. microplus adults exposed to different concentrations of A. conyzoides.

Conc.	Live tick wt. (mg)	Mortality (%)	Egg wt. (mg)	RI	IO (%)	Hatching rate (%)
(%)	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)	(Mean ± SE)
Control						100
1.25						75
2.5						25
5						20
10						20
20						5
value		0.0844	0.0210	0.0489	0.0388