Cowpea yield improvement is done by adding agricultural inputs. The use of natural substances as pesticides being encouraged to fight against cowpea field pests. pesticidal potentials Azadirachta indica and Boswellia dalzielii water extracts, Metarhizium anisopliae, alone in combination with plant a commercial synthetic pesticide (Decis®) were tested on two varieties cowpeas, Vigna unguiculata ...

Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum and Haemaphysalis punctata larval ticks were shown to be susceptible to different strains of entomopathogenic fungi Metarhizium anisopliae under laboratory conditions. To determine the susceptibility of H. anatolicum anatolicum and H. punctata to M. anisopliae, two suspensions of conidia were used (103 and 104 spores/ml). The treatments were conducted by immersing...

Aedes aegypti is the vector of a wide range of diseases (e.g. yellow fever, dengue, Chikungunya and Zika) which impact on over half the world's population. Entomopathogenic fungi such as Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana have been found to be highly efficacious in killing mosquito larvae but only now are the underlying mechanisms for pathogenesis being elucidated. Recently it was sh...