The use of biopesticides against agricultural pests is great importance for the sustainability pest management. goal present study was to determine lethal (acute) and sublethal (first male young queen emerge time, competition point, total number workers, males queens) effects four commercial [Nibortem (1.5% Lecanicillium (Verticillium) lecanii strain V1-1, Nostalgist Beauveria bassiana Bb-1), P...

A soybean cyst nematode sex pheromone (vanillic acid), chemical analogs of the pheromone, and the fungus Verticillium lecanii were applied in alginate prills (340 kg/ha) to microplots and small-scale field plots as potential management agents for Heterodera glycines on soybean. In 1991 microplot tests, treatment with V. lecanii, vanillic acid, syringic acid plus V. lecanii, or vanillic acid plu...

Abstract Background Continuous and non-judicial application of synthetic insecticides to control the tea thrips, Scirtothrips bispinosus (Bagnall), one major pests in South India has led certain undesirable issues ecosystem besides presence pesticide residues manufactured tea. Biological agents are immense importance cultivation. The present study was designed isolate Lecanicillium lecanii (Zim...

Abstract Background Okra, Abelmoschus esculentus (Linn.) Moench, is one of the most important traditional vegetables in India. The crop attacked severely by sucking pests, viz., jassid, Amrasca biguttula Ishida, and whitefly, Bemisia tabaci Genn., throughout its growth period. To control these different entomopathogenic fungi (EPF), Beauveria bassiana , Metarhizium anisopliae Lecanicillium leca...