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 that ...

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 ...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a spore-forming bacterium, which is genetically closely related to B. anthracis, the agent of anthrax, and to B. cereus, an opportunistic human pathogen.

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 ...

For the past year and a half, debate has raged over whether Bt corn’s built-in pesticide hurts harmless insects. A Cornell University team ignited the debate by dusting leaves with Bt corn ...

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 ...