Fungi associated with the hemlock wooly adelgid, Adelges tsugae Annand (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), were collected throughout the eastern USA and southern China. Twenty fungal genera were identified, as were 79 entomopathogenic isolates, including: Lecanicillium lecanii (Zimmermann) (Hypocreales: Insertae sedis), Isaria farinosa (Holm: Fries.) (Cordycipitaceae), Beauveria bassiana (Balasamo) (Hyphom...

The genus Protocrea is redefined, based on holotype and fresh specimens of its type species P. farinosa, using morphology of teleomorph and anamorph and phylogenetic analyses of rpb2 sequences. Data based on currently available specimens suggest the existence of three well defined and three still unnamed species. Apart from the type, P. farinosa, none of the species originally included are acce...

About 20,550 larvae, pupae and adults of the codling moth, Cydia pomonella L., were diagnosed for pathogens during long-term investigations (1955-2012) at the Institute for Biological Control in Darmstadt, Germany. The prevailing entomopathogens diagnosed in these studies were insect pathogenic fungi, especially Beauveria bassiana and Isaria farinosa, the microsporidium, Nosema carpocapsae, the...

In the present study, a total of 17 indigenous entomopathogenic fungal (EPF) isolates (Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. – 14, Clonostachys rosea (Link) Schroers 2, Isaria farinosa (Holmsk.) Fr. 1) obtained from soil samples collected Antalya province (southwestern part Turkey) and three commercial EPF products [i.e. Priority® (Paecilomyces fumosoroseus), Nibortem® (Verticillium lecanii) Nostal...

Blattella germanica önemli bir zararlı olup insanların patojen ve parazitlerini taşıyabilmekte, alerjik reaksiyonlara yiyecek kontaminasyonlarına neden olabilmektedir. Mücadelesinde bu gün için kullanılan kimyasallarla ilişkili riskler problemlerden dolayı alternatif yaklaşım olarak entomopatojen fungusların kullanımı araştırılmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, toprak örneklerinden izole edilmiş yedi fung...