Velvet bean caterpillar

Many baculoviruses126 (i.e., insect viruses) are species-specific. They have been used for the successful control of the gypsy moth, velvet bean caterpillar (on 5.9 million ha of soybeans in Brazil), cotton bollworm, codling moth (on apples, pears, and walnuts), rhinoceros beetle, potato tuber moth, sawflies, and porina moth.127 The gypsy moth was introduced into the United States in Massachusetts from Europe in 1869. It defoliates many trees if there are no checks on its population. The war against it has often used diflubenzuron ( dimilin1 ) (11.20), which affects many nontarget species.128... 

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