Habitat: The habitat of the Bacillus bacterium is the soil. It can survive there for a considerably long time, this is because of the capsule that envelops the Bacillus and almost all in the Bacillus family. The Bacillus family also produces dormant spores (endospores) which are very adversible to heat and are wide spread in enviorments. This is were they are able to invade dust particles. Bacillus Lentimorbus is a version that is actually not bad, it is a good bacteria and is commonly used as a soil inoculant. When it is out of the soil, it infects insects, this is a deadly insect desease, but it is still a good thing as long as all the insects do not perish. How ever, if the insects do perish, then they cannot pollenate certain plants, and this can cause plant shortages. Now I know that doesnt sound terrible unless you realize that plants also grow food. So this  makes farmers have to work a little harder to get there plants to grow. Now if the farmers use crop rotation, this is not a problem. They reseed their plants every year. In fact, this bacteria helps crop rotation, because then, every plant gets more nitrogen.

   Description: Some of the Bacillus family have been  know to cause food to spoil, this is why it is bad to leave food out. Also  Bacillus can cause short term food poisoning(which is very unpleasant). But one of the only serious things that Bacillus  has to offer is anthrax (Bacillus Anthracis, Commonly know as black death)  ,this is a strain that has highly resistant spores which can lead to complications. It mainly only troubles grazing animals with close contact to dirt. Yet humans can contract it if they eat the meat or handle the skins or guts of the animal. Anthrax can and has been used for biological warfare, because it is cheap and easy to convert to powder or liquids.

    Yet our strain of Bacillus is Bacillus Lentimorbus, this is the nice helpful version of a family that gets a little grief for killing off a large portion of Europe. Bacillus Lentimorbus releases nitrogen(as a waste) into the soil effectivly fertilizing it. It can greatly increase crop output in farms. Genetic farmers who are aware of this will even try to get this helpful bacterium in their soil. Earthworms especalilly are good because they can carry this bacteria and spread it to other fields. Similar thing happens in Japan with bettles transporting it around the rice field. It has a similar trait with it's more dangerous cousin, it still has it's capsule, yet this helps it survive in soil so it can do good things instead of infect the cows and goats. However, there is a darker side to Lentimorbus. It is after all a bacteria, it is an insect toxin, and it is deadly for infected insects, causing a strange reaction, after an over production of spores, the larvae turns white, this is milkey desease.This disease is deadly for insects, and if the insects that pollenate plants all die, the pollen stays at a stand still, causing plants to grow too close together, or not at all. Though for farmers who reseed their fields each year this is not a problem. And it also keeps the insects that eat their crops down, making it great for farms, but a plague for reproduction.

    History: Alexandre Yersin a Frechmen working for Pasteur Institue discovered the new Bacillus Anthracis while Kitasato Shibasaburo simultaneouly did the same in 1894. They quickly realized that the plague was easily picked up in the air and from animals that had the sickness. they injected animals with the illness and they quickly died. It remained a secret as to how the Bacillus was spread until the link between India and China noticed a considerable number of rats death(ratus ratus), always preceded a fresh outbreak. Paul-Louis Simond, a french researcher, proved that the plague was spread by the fleas on the rats, that infested the earthen streets of olden days. This ground breaking discovery opened up the Bacillus bacterium for many other scientists, several other familys of Bacillus were then discovered by sub groups of this project, Bacillus Lentimorbus being one of them.

Interesting Facts by Stilicho (May Contain Repeating Information)

One of the more famous forms of Bacillus is anthrax. It was origanally a live stock and animal disaese. But it has now morphed into a perfectly contagious, and very deadly human disaese. It is usually spread by any thing that has touched the animal. It deposits itself especially on hair and fecal matter. It was made famous by more recent events due to 9/11. After 9/11, there were threats that anthrax, A highly contagious and deadly disaese, would be sent to people in envelopes. This made it super contagious, because anthrax is spread by inhalation of dust particles. These particles were ground up cow parts. The way anthrax killed you was that it would cause your cells to sytemcaticly hemmorage  from the inside, so you would get a result not unlike ebola. It is not known yet how the toxin in anthrax works but it is known to cause sudden death, with signs of suffacation, cardiac arrest, and secondary shock, as well as the hemmoraghing.   So while this threat was going on, the government, posted pamphlets on how to make sure that you didnt recieve anthrax in the mail. It turned out to be a false alarm. There was not an anthrax outbreak

B. Lentimorbus is actually not a threat to humans. At least, not directly. The bacteria is an insect pathogen, or insect toxin. It speficically infects the japanese beetle, and the European chafer larvae. This disease is called milky disease. This is due to the fact that when the larvae are affected, they turn a milky color. The color is caused by over production of spores in the hemoglyph. This eventually causes death. These two insects are essential for the growth of plants through pollination so when they are all dead, the plants cant reproduce. This causes millions of dollars each year in damages and sometimes will result in a major famine. For all this famine causing, B.Lentimorbus has gotten a pretty bad rap.

But, B. Lentimorbus also has another special quality. It is soil inoculating. When I found this out, I began to believe that irony is in fact funny. A soil inoculator means that the bacteria helps plants reproduce by releasing nutrients as a waste by product. This is also essential for the growth of plants. A more famous example of these types of bacteria are Rhizobia. Rhizobia live on the roots of legumes and produce nitrogen, a key ingredient in fertilizer. This inoculates the soil, and makes it very fertile for the next plant to grow there. This is why farmers use crop rotation. No its not because they want to do more work, its because they get a better harvest the year after legumes have grown in that spot.