Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki strain sa-12 solids, spores and Lepidopteran active toxins
>6 million viable spores 98.35%
other ingrediants 1.65%
Tomato Hornworm order= Lepidoptera
Squash Bug order= Hemiptera.
A tomato Hornworm, being of the Lepidoptera order succumbs to damage caused by BT (Bacillus Thuringiensi)
A Squash Bug, being of the Hemiptera order does not.
Lepidopteran toxins will NOT work on Squash bugs, but are generated by the gut of an insect in the Lepidoptera order. BT will organically work on any tomato worm you will ever encounter.
The Solution
NICOTINE WILL ORGANICALLY DECIMATE A LOCAL HEMIPTERA ORDER.
(its interesting to note and good to know that if any nicotine comes into contact with a tomato plant it will KILL the plant with Tobacco Mosaic Virus)
Summary. Dietary nicotine (0.5%), which is a substrate
of the PSMO (polysubstrate monooxygenase) detoxifica-
tion system in the southern armyworm Spodoptera erida-
nia, has significant negative effects on the weight of food
ingested, weight gained, relative growth rate (RGR), and
efficiency of conversion of digested food (ECD) by fourth-
instar S. eridania larvae on a nutrient-rich artificial diet.
It has a significant positive effect on the weight of food
respired by the larvae. Thus, the detoxification of nico-
tine by the PSMO system exacts a fitness cost and im-
poses a metabolic cost on S. eridania larvae. In contrast,
dietary e-(+)-pinene, an inducer of the PSMO system,
neither exacts a fitness cost nor imposes a metabolic cost
on the larvae. We believe this to be the first study to
demonstrate unequivocally that the negative effect of a
dietary toxin on net growth efficiency (ECD) in an insect
herbivore is due to an increase in the allocation of assim-
ilated food to energy metabolism and not to a decrease
in the amount of food assimilated. This study, therefore,
supports the hypothesis that detoxification can impose a
significant metabolic load on an insect herbivore. Im-
plications of a corroboration of the metabolic load
hypothesis are discussed.
I think the greatest thing about paragraph is this..
"We believe this to be the first study to
demonstrate unequivocally that the negative effect of a
dietary toxin on net growth efficiency (ECD) in an insect
herbivore is due to an increase in the allocation of assim-
ilated food to energy metabolism and not to a decrease
in the amount of food assimilated."
If you view these series of pictures think of organic chemical warfare.
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