Ethnomedicinal plants have been used since ancient times to repel/kill insects all over the world. This distribution of knowledge and services of traditional plants in village vaidyas is kept hierarchial and there is very little ethnobotanical documentation of most of the country herbal plants species. This study was initiated to document insecticidal/repellent and larvicides. Different traditional medicinal plants publications and related research sources were reviewed by various studies with different researchers over the past two decades. The review distributed a total of 25 traditional medicinal plants in 12 families and different parts of these plants were prepared and applied in various forms.