Bacillus thuringiensis

And Bt, for all of y'all that are listening that don't know what Bt is, Bt is-

Bacillus thuringiensis.

Yes.

It is, it is a, uh, targeted, it only, it only attacks caterpillars.

Then they get caterpillars, and they chew the leaves.

For that, you use Liquid 7, or you could use Bacillus thuringiensis, also known as BT.

That's all natural, too.

And the third one is something that seems to be worse this year.

And I know maybe you wanted, well, can I put this treatment in the hive? There aren't really things available in that context.

Now, there is a product that's based on Bacillus thuringiensis, BT, that you can spray on cones.

But even that works better in the stored cone situation and not really in the hive situation.

So really the best defense against wax moths is controlling all those other problems that bees get.

Well, of course, that's going to make that cavity less attractive to the bees.

I'm going to circle back to this in a moment.

Option number two is that BT treatment that I mentioned earlier, the one that's based on bacillus thuringiensis.

This is a perfect scenario for it.

if you do have standing water, if you have to have standing water, you can even create a trap for the mosquitoes.

You can take a bucket and put some organic matter in it so that way it's producing some of these methylates that are attracting the mosquitoes, and then you can add in pellets that contain a product called Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, which is a natural occurring bacteria that actually parasitizes mosquito larvae.

Adding that in to wherever it is that mosquitoes might be breeding on your property can help cut the life cycle down, and it keeps that one adult mosquito from becoming 200 adult mosquitoes in a matter of a couple weeks.

Wow.

So, so Mike, if we add one little extra bulge on the already bursting aneurysm that you just identified, what we would do is we'd look at nutrition the same way.

Remember that in 1904, the Japanese determined that, that Bacillus thuringiensis toxin was toxic to mammalian gut tissue, which explains perfectly why genetically modified seed crops started using Bacillus thuringiensis to make sure every seed crop, our, our nutritional food chain, is contaminated with a toxin that in 1904 was established to be the cause of leaky gut syndrome and every form of destruction of the natural biome of the human gut.

Now, why on earth would we pick something where in 1904, the empirical evidence showed that this toxin beyond any reasonable doubt was harmful and fatal to the human condition and we simultaneously bring the drug companies, think all of the gastrointestinal drugs we've had over the last 100 years, together with industrial agriculture, which is now using Monsanto for what? BT-adjusted crops.

[laughs] Yes.

Now, BT-ad- a- adjusted crops is in fact Bacillus thuringiensis.

If we actually acknowledged that the thing we're using to genetically modify our food is a toxin produced by something that by 1904 we knew was going to kill people, we would have a different view of that.

But once again, the patents on seed crops, the patents on Monsanto, the patents on glyphosate that was the precursor for Roundup, all of these things are part of exactly the same Bayer, Hoechst, Wellcome, Glaxo, SmithKline, Beecham.

Bs.

Bt.

It has a very long, storied history in agriculture, and currently stands as the most commercially successful biopesticide on the global market.

Okay.

So we talked about the caterpillar melting from the inside out in the intro.

That was Bt, right?

[laughs] That was Bt.

Let's break down the actual biology of how a single bacterium takes down an insect that is millions of times its size.

Raymond, where do we stand on bagworm activity right now? We're really beyond the spraying point?

Yeah, Jeff, I, at this point, the usual products we recommend are around like, uh, spinosad or Btk, which is the Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki bacteria.

Those are really gonna be not effective because the caterpillars in the bags are getting larger, and they're less susceptible to those materials.

So right now, uh, we're getting close where the caterpillars will start, uh, forming a cap on the bag and thinking about reproduction.

And not all microbes can be registered.

Uh, Canada's a very tough country, as an example, where Bacillus thuringiensis isn't even allowed in the, in the, in the country.

And so you have to make sure that it's registerable, and that's the guidelines we followed.

And also, we tested the, the microbes for an array of potential to make sure that that wasn't the case.