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The insecticidal activity of a complex mixture of enniatins, cyclohexadepsipeptides produced by Fusarium lateritium, a pathogen of the scale insect Hemiberlesia rapax, is compared with that of enniatin A and beauvericin in two bioassays against Calliphora erythrocephala and Aedes aegypti.
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Grove, J.F., Pople, M. The insecticidal activity of beauvericin and the enniatin complex. Mycopathologia 70, 103–105 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00443075
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