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Word: cankerworm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state entomologist at the Shade Tree Laboratory Field Station in Waltham suggested that a commercial preparation of the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis might keep the moth population down for several years while the natural predators re-establish themselves. This particular biological control has recently halted the cabbage looper and fruit cankerworm, but it has not been tried against the ivy moth...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Pesticides at Harvard | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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