On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Steven Moye wrote: > Bt's are not species specific, but order specific. They kill larval stages > of the order Lepidoptera... Strains of Bt also kill species of Diptera and Coleoptera, terrestrial and aquatic. Bt has no known effect on the honey bee. **************************************************************************** Tom Culliney Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, 1428 South King St., Honolulu, HI 96814, U.S.A. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Telephone: 808-973-9528 FAX: 808-973-9533 "To a rough approximation and setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can be said that essentially all organisms are insects."--R.M. May (1988) "Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord."--T. Eisner (1989)