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milky disease en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) A disease of the white grubs of Japanese beetles, caused by a soil-dwelling bacterium, Paenibacillus popilliae.
1972, United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, “The Japanese Beetle: How We Fight It,” p. 6,
If possible, biological controls are used. One of these is milky disease, a bacterial disease that infects and kills the grub without causing harm to other animal life.
When ingested by a foraging beetle grub [the spores] multiply prodigiously in its blood, causing it to turn an abnormally white color, hence the popular name, “milky disease.”
1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 7, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 97:
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(uncountable) Synonym of grasserie (“disease of silkworms”).
Synonyms
grasserie · milky spore