## 4 Discussion  
[PERSON] et al. (2018) evaluated the insecticidal and insecticatic activities from the chloroform extracts of the aerial parts of _Salvia ballotiflora_, _S. comrivens_, _S. keerlii_, and _S. micropilla_. They found that _S. frugiperda_ larvae mortality was higher with _S. micropilla_ than with _S. connivens_, _S. keerlii_, and _S. ballotiflora_. With LC\({}_{50}\) of 916, 936, 1527, and 1685 ppm, respectively, the pupal mortalities were 83.3, 75, 62.5, and 54.2% with _S. micropilla_, _S. comrivens_, _S. keerlii_, and _S. ballotiflora_. Insecistatic activity began at 500 ppm with all species; larval phase duration increased by 7.6, 6.5, 5.2, and 2.6 days with the _S. comnivens_, _S. microphylla_, _S. ballotiflora_, and _S. keerlii_ extracts, respectively. Pupal phase duration increased by 2.3, 2, 1.4, and 1.2 days with _S. keerlii_, _S. microphylla_, _S. comrivens_, and _S. ballotiflora_, respectively. Finally, pupal weight was reduced by 16.4, 13.2, 12.3, and 9.8% with _S. keerlii_, _S. ballotiflora_, _S. microphylla_, and _S. comrivens_, respectively. The LC\({}_{50}\) in this work was higher than that reported by previous authors who used the chloroform extract of the same plant genus, and the insecticatic activity began at 1000 ppm instead of 500 ppm. The higher concentration for insecticatic activity found in our study might be related to the fact that the plant material was collected from the same place but during different years, affecting the quality and abundance of secondary metabolites with insecistatic and insecticidal activity (2018). Despite the higher concentration for insecistatic activity, the results suggest that the chloroform extracts of _Salvia comrivens_ have insecticidal and insecticatic activities. [PERSON] et al. (2018) evaluated the insecticidal and insecticatic activities of the n-hexane extract of the aerial parts of _S. microphylla_ against _S. frugiperda_; the LC\({}_{50}\) was 456.2 ppm. The larval mortality at 500 ppm was 65%, and pupal mortality was 82.5%. Furthermore, (2018) evaluated the insecticidal and insecticatic activities from the chloroform extracts and found that insecticatic activity began at 500 ppm, increasing the larval phase duration by 2 days and the pupal phase duration by 12.1 days, while pupal weight was reduced by 14.1% compared with the control. Apparently, these species present a higher activity than the present investigation's results, although the different species prevent direct comparisons. [PERSON] et al. (2018) showed that the aqueous extract from aerial parts of _S. sclarea_ at 1000 ppm in adults from _T. vaporarium_ had 56.7% mortality after 120 h. [PERSON] et al. (2018) evaluated the methanolic and aqueous extract of leaves and flowers of _S. officinalis_ against _Stiophilus oryzae_ (Coleopterara: Curculinidae), obtaining 100, 80, and 60% mortality at concentrations of 15,000, 10,000, and 5000 ppm, respectively, with the methanolic extract of leaves; 60, 20, and 40% at the same concentrations with the methanolic extract from flowers; 60, 40, and 20% at the same concentrations with the aqueous extract of leaves; and 40, 20, and 0% at the same concentrations with the flowers aqueous extract. Therefore, there is evidence that aqueous and organic extracts from some _Salvia_ species have insecticidal activity.