The fungus Lecanicillium is belonging to the order Hypocreales and is described as anamorphic Cordycipitaceae. This genus is known by its ability to infect other species of fungi such as Agaricus spp., Sphaerotheca spp. [1], Puccinia spp. [2]...etc. On the other hand, it was recorded as entomopathogenic fungus as it can parasitize some species of insects like Mosquito larvae [3]&[4] Bombyx mori...

أوضحت نتائج التجربة المختبرية لتقدير الكفاءة النسبية لمعاملات المستحضرات الفطرية في مكافحة نوعين من حشرات المَن هما Aphis gossypii و fabae أن المستحضر الفطري Lecanicillium muscarium هو الأكثر كفاءة باقي المستخدمة الدراسة وهي , Isaria fumosorosea Beauveria bassiania acridum Metarhizium إذ بلغت النسبة المصححة للموت بعد 7 أيام المعاملة لحوريات مَن القطن 92.8 % وللبالغات 88.78 حين كانت الباقلاء الأسو...

The entomopathogenic fungus Lecanicillium lecanii persists in a highly dynamic network of habitat patches (i.e., a metapopulation) formed by its primary host, the green coffee scale Coccus viridis. Lecanicillium lecanii is an important biological control of both C. viridis and the coffee rust, Hemileia vastatrix. Successfully managing this biocontrol agent will depend on an increased understand...

Recent studies have shown that the spatial pattern of nests of an arboreal ant, Azteca instabilis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in a tropical coffee agroecosystem may emerge through self-organization. The proposed self-organization process involves both local expansion and density-dependent mortality of the ant colonies. We explored a possible mechanism for the density-dependent mortality involvin...

The potential of a dry powder co-formulant, kaolin, to improve the control of storage beetles by the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana, isolate IMI389521, was investigated. The response of Oryzaephilus surinamensis adults to the fungus when applied to wheat at 1 × 10(10) conidia per kg with and without kaolin at 1.74 g per kg wheat was assessed. Addition of kaolin increased control fro...

In this study, effect of three entomopathogenic fungi (% 1.5 Beauveria bassiana strain Bb-1, % Lecanicillium lecani V1-1 and Paecilomyces fumosoreus PFs-1) on Bombus terrestris workers was investigated under controlled laboratory conditions. Workers were exposed to recommended doses by topical application dry film method. Of the 30 in each colony, 15 them marked blue red their thorax. While put...

BACKGROUND Entomopathogenic fungi such as Beauveria bassiana are considered promising biological control agents for a variety of arthropod pests. Beauveria species, however, have the potential to elicit allergenic reactions in humans, although no specific allergens have been characterized to date. METHODS Four putative allergens were identified within B. bassiana expressed sequence tag (EST) ...

Beauveria is a globally distributed genus of soil-borne entomopathogenic hyphomycetes of interest as a model system for the study of entomopathogenesis and the biological control of pest insects. Species recognition in Beauveria is difficult due to a lack of taxonomically informative morphology. This has impeded assessment of species diversity in this genus and investigation of their natural hi...