A PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING INSECT PESTS USING A STRAIN OF PROVIDENCIA

摘要

A non-sporeforming enteric-type bacterium elaborates a regulatory substance that interacts with the insect's own neuro-secretory regulatory system at the time when the larvae of (holometamorphic) insects reach the prepupal stage. This bacterium is used to inhibit or interfere with the synthesis of chitin whereupon the affected insects are unable to complete their life cycle and die while at an immature stage.