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Originally Posted by ginger2778
Kurt, I just went to buglady's link. That isn't useful after all for this insect, its only good for soft bodied ones such as whiteflies, thrips, aphids. These true bugs with the hard exoskeleton are a whole different sort of pestilence. See page 2 on that link, quite near the top.
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This is what she recommended in the email.She copied some bugs from Wiki that this stuff affects.Seems like there are some hard exoskeletons in the list.
pecies, Beauveria bassiana parasitizes a very wide range of arthropod hosts. However, different strains vary in their host ranges, some having rather narrow ranges, like strain Bba 5653 that is very virulent to the larvae of the Diamondback Moth and kills only few other types of caterpillars. Some strains do have a wide host range and should therefore be considered nonselective biological insecticides. These should not be applied to flowers visited by pollinating insects.[7]
Known targets include:[8][9][10]
Aphids
Whiteflies
Mealybugs
Psyllids
Lygus bugs
Chinch bug
Grasshoppers
Stink bugs (Halyomorpha halys)[11]
Thrips
Termites
Fire ants
Flies
Stem Borers
Fungal gnats
Shoreflies
Beetles
Coffee borer beetle
Colorado potato beetle
Mexican bean beetle
Japanese beetle
Boll weevil
Cereal leaf beetle
Bark beetles
Emerald ash borer (in con★★★★★★★★ with the parasitoid wasp Tetrastichus planipennisi)[12]
Black vine weevil
Strawberry root weevil
Caterpillars
European corn borer
Codling moth
Douglas fir tussock moth
invasive Silkworms
Mites