" It's their plans to extend this delivery system to pesticides that has me wondering."
You already named one pesticide they aim to use. The fungus is a pesticide.
Yes Dick, thank you. I meant to say insecticides and I was thinking of their product Vectorite more as a fungicide but as you say pesticide covers both.
B. bassiana is another biopesticide under consideration which can kill insects and to some extent is toxic to bees. I can't see why bees wouldn't pick some up and store it as pollen. And why wouldn't bees pick up some Vectorite and store it as pollen?
>Other active ingredients under BVT consideration include
>Beauveria bassiana
>Used to control a variety of insect pests, beauveria bassiana can help plants combat termites, thrips, white flies, aphids and different beetles.
Bill Hesbach
Cheshire CT
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