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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.
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Tom Culliney Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry,
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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
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