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...several years, Professor Evgeni Talalayev, chief of microbiology at Irkutsk University, collected caterpillars that had died naturally. Eventually he isolated one cause of death: a virulent bacterium, which he used to infect and kill large numbers of caterpillars. He then dried their bodies and ground them to powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plague for Caterpillars | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Professor Talalayev's spray is harmless to higher animals, including man. (Acting as his own guinea pig, he once swallowed a whole spoonful of the spray without ill effects.) The first tests have been so successful that the spray is being produced in large quantities by a factory in Moscow. There is also a possibility that the spray will control another leaf-eating caterpillar, which attacks deciduous trees. Another promising victim for Talalayev's biological warfare: the viciously biting black fly that makes life miserable each spring for man and beast in Siberia, Canada and the northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plague for Caterpillars | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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