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Toxicity of Bacillus sphaericus crystal toxin to adult mosquitoes
J E Stray1, M J Klowden, R E Hurlbert
1Department of Microbiology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
Adult Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes were killed by alkaline-solubilized Bacillus sphaericus toxin when it was introduced by enema into the midgut of the insect but not when it was administered orally. Adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were not affected by the toxin.