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> >Well, I have gotten SOME advice. Still nothing real
> positive.....
> >Still waiting for ideas.
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> Mike:
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> Here's a non-conventional treatment for wax moths, but natural. An
> insect specific virus which infects only wax moths (doesn't harm bees,
> birds, humans, etc) exists. You can find it in the literature under
> Galleria mellonella Nuclear Polyherdosis Virus (GmNPV).
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> This virus is completely safe, as this and related viruses have been
> assayed for their effects on humans, etc. (Not exactly true - we are
> doing a lot of microbial pesticide work. This assumption probably
> holds, and these pesticides generally are host specific and are not
> harmful to non-target organisms - but, tests have been rather hit and
> miss in terms of which non-target organisms have been examined and the
> appropriateness or relevancy of the assay is suspect in some cases.
> So, I'm not about to say any of these are completely safe, just less
> hazardous than most of the alternatives. This may change as the
> bio-engineers get into the act and try to improve on nature.
Jerry Bromenshenk
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The University of Montana
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