Our economy is continuously harmed by infestation of stored products brought about by stored grain pests which are responsible for worldwide loss of 10 - 40% annually. Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), Red flour beetle is a cosmopolitan and serious pest of cereal grains and their products. In order to manage the loss of stored grains and other agricultural products from insect infestation, many plant products have been evaluated for their toxic properties against different stored grain pests. In the present study, Bacillus thuringiensis isolates from collected samples were grown on T3 media....

Carpenter ants (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) are not only found in kitchens but they are also present in gutters, woods, and the places which are poorly adapted to healthy environment. The presence of these ants in the kitchen makes all the utensils and the food entirely unhygienic as a result when they are used by humans make them ill or may cause death. Carpenter ants are the very important source of spreading these pathogenic bacteria to humans and spreads food borne illness. The study was attempted to isolate the pathogenic bacteria from the external body parts of carpenter ant collected...