Cantharidin: Potent Feeding Deterrent to Insects
- 22 February 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 183 (4126), 755-757
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.183.4126.755
Abstract
Cantharidin, the well-known terpenoid compound from the blood of blister beetles (and active principle of Spanish fly), is a feeding deterrent to insects, effective at a concentration of 10-5 molar.Keywords
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