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What is "Bt" in the recipe for spraying fruit trees?

What is Bt in the recipe for spraying fruit trees?


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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Bt is Bacillus thuringiensis, and as you probably know, it is a beneficial bacteria applied as a spray to kill caterpillars.
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