Greater wax moth

Hepburn, H. R., Chandler, H. D., and Davidoff, M. R. (1979). Extensometric properties of insect fibroins The green lacewing cross-/ , honeybee a-helical and greater wax-moth parallel-/ conformations. Insect Biochem. 9, 69-77. 

The crystal is only one of the toxins produced by these bacteria. In 1953 Toumanoff (28) reported on a study of the genus Bacillus and their phospholipase C activity. In 1954 he found (29) that the precipitate of this enzyme from broth filtrates caused death when injected or fed to larvae of the greater wax moth [Galleria mellonella (L.)] In 1955 Heimpel (13) showed that strains of B. cereus and B. thuringiensis... 

Finally, in 1959, McConnell and Richards (22) reported on a water-soluble, dialyzable, heat-stable substance produced in growing cultures of B. thuringiensis and a culture of B. cereus. They found that the toxin was not effective against the greater wax moth per os, but was toxic when injected. 

Martouret 23) reports that this toxic material kills greater wax moth larvae 5 to IS days after injection. If injected in low dosage, it retards or interferes with pupation and emergence of adults. 

Undecanal is a sex attractant for the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella). Show how to synthesize this compound efficiently from... 

Callerimycin, an antifungal 76-peptide from the greater wax moth Galleria... 

Greater wax moth. Galleria melonella, 101 Gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, 182,... 

Finn, W. E. and Payne, T. L. (1977) Attraction of greater wax moth females to male-produced pheromones. Southw. Ent, 2, 62-5. 

Roller, H., Biemann, K., Bjerke, J., Norgard, D. and McShan. W. (1968) Sex pheromones of the pyralid moths. I. Isolation and identification of the sex attractant of Galleria mellonella L. (greater wax moth). Acta Ent. Bohemoslov., 65, 209-11. 

Payne and Finn 364) have recently studied the pheromone receptor system of females of the greater wax moth. Galleria mellonella. The male produces -nonanal and -undecanal in its wing glands. Using the differential adaptation technique on female antennal preparations, the authors concluded that -nonanal reacts with both acceptors (receptor sites), whereas w-undecanal reacts with only one acceptor (receptor site). 

Payne, T. L., and W. E. Finn Pheromone receptor system in the females of the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella. J. Insect Physiol. 23, 879—881 (1977). 

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