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Cantharidin: potent feeding deterrent to insects.

Publication date: 1974-02-22

Keywords: Aggression, Animals, Ants, drug effects, Beetles, Cantharidin, pharmacology, Feeding Behavior, Humans

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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.