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Pest control by bacteria: Alfalfa caterpillar in field reduced to sub-economic levels within two days by bacillus applied as spray
Publication Information
California Agriculture 5(6):5-5.
Published June 01, 1951
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Abstract
A spore-forming bacterium–Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner–successfully reduced populations of the alfalfa caterpillar to below the economic level in field tests near Dos Palos.