These bright yellow sticky traps work like fungus gnat magnets. The adults can't resist flying straight into them and getting ...

Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram positive, soil-dwelling bacterium. Like all Bacillus species, it is rod-shaped and produces spores. Aside from being a close relative to Bacillus anthracis (the one ...

If you have moths or caterpillars bothering your garden, Bt (or Bacillus thuringiensis) is your best bet to wipe them out without harming beneficial insects. You can buy this organic pest control ...

THE lethality of Bacillus thuringiensis to many lepidopterous larvae has led to its development as a “biological insecticide”. Products based on this bacterium contain two active ingredients ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 93, No. 3 (September, 2010), pp. 385-390 (6 pages) A colony of the cactus moth, Cactoblastis cactorum Berg, suffered a die-off that involved 100% larval mortality in ...

Multiple-locus sequence typing analysis of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis reveals separate clustering and a distinct population structure of psychrotrophic strains.

1882: German physician Robert Koch announces his discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus, isolating the cause of a scourge responsible for one in seven deaths during the mid-19th century. Koch ...

The corn variety examined carries a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis for an especially strong punch of the bacterial toxin.

Paper accepted: “A carbohydrate binding module-5 is essential for oxidative cleavage of chitin by a multi-modular lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase from Bacillus thuringiensis serovar kurstaki.” Our ...