Organic Mosquito Patch: The Use of Lemongrass, Garlic and Marigold

Journal homepage: http://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/AJSE/ ASEAN Journal of Science and Engineering 1 (1) (2021) 9-12 © 2021 Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia Nathalie Faith Biñas et al,. Organic Mosquito Patch: The Use of Lemongrass... | 10 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10. 17509/xxxxt.vxix pISSN 2775-8419 eISSN 2775-8427


INTRODUCTION
The Philippines have experienced a lot of mosquito-borne diseases resulting in many deaths in the past years. Many are finding ways to either exterminate or repel those mosquitoes. Thus, the study is conducted to produce a repellent that is not only effective but also cost-efficient.
DEET used in commercialized patches may have undesirable side effects (Briassoulis et al., 2001;Bell & Veltri, 2002). Many are interested with Plant-based repellents that are effective and earth economical. The study is to utilize lemongrass, garlic, and marigold (Maia & Moore, 2011). Lemongrass is a natural repellent for mosquitoes as it contains a scent that mosquitoes hate. Garlic contains sulfurs that are successful against mosquitoes. Marigolds possesses an unpleasant smell mosquito hate. However, there is no study about combining those three ingredients as a patch.
The product of study can be a substitute for the commercialized mosquito patch and could open many other possibilities of using natural ingredients as other forms of mosquito repellents.

METHODS
The research design used in the experiment was experimental and comparative study (Alagumurthi, 2006). The materials were lemongrass, garlic, and marigold to produce the organic mosquito patch. Table 1 shows the design of the material mix in the manufacture of organic mosquito patches.
The commercialized mosquito patch was utilized as the control of the study. These mosquito patches were tested for its time and effectiveness in repelling mosquitoes. This study is designed by different ratio and proportion based on the measurement of the materials (Revay, 2013).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The results revealed that organic mosquito patch has a 100% repelling rate and a mean of 10, which can be interpreted as very high and very efficient within the duration respectively, regardless with the proportion of solutions contain. The results imply that the organic mosquito patch is highly effective in repelling mosquito within the duration of 30 minutes. The presentation of Rejection Rates and Efficiency in Duration of Organic Mosquito Patches are shown in Table 2  The results revealed that commercialized mosquito patch has 100% repelling rate and a mean of 10, which can be interpreted as very high and very efficient within the duration respectively. It simply means that the commercialized mosquito is highly effective in repelling the mosquitoes within the duration of 30 minutes. It simply means that the commercialized mosquito is highly effective in repelling the mosquitoes within the duration of 30 minutes. The repelling rate and the efficiency of commercialized mosquito patch are shown in Table 3.
Considering that the F-computed value is lesser than the F -tabulated value at 5% level of significance, then Ho is accepted and Ha is rejected. It implies that there is no significant difference between organic mosquito patches and commercialized mosquito patch in terms of repelling mosquitoes. The difference between organic mosquito patches and commercialized organic patches in terms of its effectiveness in repelling mosquitoes are shown in Table 4.

CONCLUSION
The results of this study indicate the commercialized patch got the highest mean compared to the other patches, but statistical analysis showed that there is no significant difference between the control and experimental groups at 5% level regarding the effectiveness of the three treatments during the duration of a given time.
It implies that the organic mosquito patch could be an alternative for Commercialized patches and lemongrass, garlic and marigold can be effective materials in developing organic mosquito repellents.