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Biological Activity Insecticide

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List of activity chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Sort descending	Dosage	Reference
THYMOL	0.22 uM/fly	Duke, 1992 *
TREWIASINE	not available	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
WILFORDINE	not available	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
WILFORINE	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXIN	not available	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
ZINGIBERENE	not available	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.

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List of Activity Plants.
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Plant Name Sort descending	Common Name	Chemical Count	Total Parts Per Million
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis	Pepperbark; Southern Prickly Ash; Hercules'-Club; West Indian Yellowwood	1	0
Zea mays	Corn	9	8, 000
Zingiber officinale	Ginger	9	103, 655
Zizyphus jujuba	Da-Zao; Jujube; Ta-Tsao	1	45, 000