Aphicidal Activity of Illicium verum Fruit Extracts and Their Effects on the Acetylcholinesterase and Glutathione S-transferases Activities in Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae).

This study aims to explore the aphicidal activity and underlying mechanism of Illicium verum Hook. f. that is used as both food and medicine.

An insecticidal protein from Xenorhabdus budapestensis that results in prophenoloxidase activation in the wax moth, Galleria mellonella.

Xenorhabdus budapestensis can produce a variety of proteins that help this bacterium and its mutualistic nematode vector kill the host insect. In this report, we purified one protein fraction from the intracellular extract of X. budapestensis D43, which was designated HIP57.

[Pathogenicity of several fungal species on Spodoptera litura].

The virulence test of five species of entomogenous fungi Beauveria brongniartii, Beauveria bassiana, Paecilomyces fumosoroseus, Metarhizium anisopliae and Nomuraea rileyi to Spodoptera litura larvae showed that B. brongniartii and N. rileyi had evident pathogenic effects on S.