They are known to eat cabbage moths, bollworms, tomato hornworms and broccoli worms. |
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It in fact is toxic to only a particular group of lepidopteran insects and particularly cotton bollworms. |
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The toxin-enhanced virus would act like a magic insecticide bullet, targeting only cotton bollworms, for example, and leaving bees and other beneficial insects unharmed. |
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Midwesterners call the insects corn earworms, but farmers elsewhere grumble about cotton bollworms and tomato fruitworms. |
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