Insecticidal activity of indanomycin.

More than half of the worldwide expenditure on agrochemicals was devoted to insecticides in an effort to combat over half a million different herbivorous insect species1}. Despite this, 15% of the crops planted are lost to feeding insects and other pests2). The cost of this damage and its effect on agriculture has increased the demand for more effective crop protection agents. For manyyears, pest control has been based primarily on the use of synthetic compounds3). Therefore, new