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Bag i llus immob i l i s Steinbaus 



Inaect concerned: Ceratomia catalpae . 



The rectum of larvae of Ceratomia catalpae was found by 

 Steinhaus ( 19^+1 ) to contain this non-motile spore-forming 

 bacillus. 



*Steinhaus, E. A. 19^1 A study of the "bacteria associated 

 with thirty species of insects. J. Bact. , kg, 757-790. 



Bac I LLUS INSECTORUM Burrell iBurrill] 

 (See Micrococcus insectorum ) 



Bac i llus lact i s aerogenes Sternberg 

 (See Aerobacter aerogenes j 



Bac i llus laimceolatus 



Insect concerned: The honey "bee, Apis mellifera . 



Mattes, (1927) indicated that Bacillus lanceolatus 

 caused a mild f oulbrood of "bees : 



"In seiner Bacillus agilis G-estalt ahnelt 

 er sehr dem Bacillus lanceolatus, der "bei der 

 'Gustartigen Faulbrut der Bienen' neben anderen 

 Formen auf tritt. " 



He mentioned the fact that this "bacillus was similar to 

 Bacillus agilis Mattes and Lehmann- Neumann -Breed (1931) 

 refer to it as "being lancet-shaped. 



Lehmann -Neumann -Breed 1931 Determinative Bacteriology, 

 G. E. Stechert and Co., New York, 868 pp. 



*Mattes, 0. 1927 Parasitare Krankheiten der Mehlmotten- 

 larven und Versuche iiber ihre Verwendbarkeit als 

 biologisches Bekampfungsmittel. Sitzungsberichte der 

 Gesellschaft zur Bedfcrderung der gesamten Naturwissen- 

 chaften zu Marburg, 62, 381-^17. 



Bac 1 llus larvae White 

 ( Bacillus brandenburgiensis and Bacillus burri ) 



Insect concerned: The honey bee, Apis mellifera . 



