" 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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