Dust Containing Bacillus thuringiensis for Control of Chicken Body, Shaft, and Wing Lice124

Abstract
Dusts containing commercially prepared Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner reduced the numbers of chicken body lice, Menacanthus stramineus (Nitzsch); shaft lice, Menopon gallinae (L.); and wing lice, Lipeurus caponis (L.), on white leghorn hens treated by direct application or by using dust-bath boxes. One or more direct applications of 3.5 g of dust per bird controlled lice effectively; dust-bath boxes containing 75 g B. thuringiensis per 5.5 kg sand provided incomplete control.

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