Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is ...

Box tree moth larvae or caterpillars are about an inch long, with a growth cycle like any other moth. Its green colour with ...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a key eco-friendly biocontrol agent, targeting specific pests in agriculture, reducing ...

Confined field trials of BT cotton at five sites in Zimbabwe show positive results giving more scope for the country to scale ...

For more than 20 years, farmers across the globe have been planting crops, including corn, cotton, and soybeans, that have been genetically modified to express insecticide genes from the bacterium ...

Since it is not a true caterpillar, organic insecticides containing Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) will not control this pest.

The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has begun an experimental deployment of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI), a ...

Farmers should be aware that overusing Bt corn can be problematic, according to an analysis of data covering 12 years and 10 ...

Among the nine pesticides tested using a coated glass vial method, the five broad-spectrum insecticides (azinphos-methyl ... effect elevated the toxicity to moderate. Azadirachtin, Bacillus ...