This invention provides the use of ginger
plant extracts, insecticidal compositions, and methods of use that have excellent anti-
insect activity against pests such as mites and thrips. [Solution] The present invention provides the use of ginger family
plant extracts in the killing, control, extermination, prevention or reduction of pest oviposition, and prevention or reduction of pest egg
hatching, wherein the ginger family
plant is one or more selected from ginger, turmeric, galangal,
hepatica, and ginger lily, the extract can be obtained by extracting from one ginger family plant or from two or more ginger family plants, and the pest is selected from thrips, spider mites, lepidae,
gall mites,
dust mites, lice, green mites, predatory mites, scabiidae,
dust mites, and
dust mites.