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- Title
Efficacy of the Fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum against Some Acridid Insects.
- Authors
H., A. K.; Agamy, E. A.; Taha, G. Z.; El-Husseini, M. M.
- Abstract
Acrididae pests are serious agricultural pests that cause considerable damage to food crops and pasture grasses, particularly during outbreaks. New control strategies aim to use of relatively safe materials such as pathogens. In this study, Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum (Green Muscle) was applied against some Acrididae pests at different periods in some places in Egypt considered favorable breeding sites to test its efficacy on the target pests under the Egyptian ecological conditions. Results showed that the efficacy of M. anisopliae var. acridum, in all treatments, indicated that it was a specific bio-pesticide for controlling Acrididae pests but it seems to be slow acting as a bio-agent unlike chemical pesticides. Efficient applications were in case of grasshoppers, desert locust nymphs, desert locust adults or migratory locust adults and then local locust (trees locust), respectively. At field application rates, 50 g/ha dose (diluted in diesel) of M. anisopliae var. acridum resulted in an optimal mortality of locusts and grasshoppers in the cages during 21 days, followed by 50 g/ha dose diluted in vegetable oil, respectively. Use of diesel for dilatation may be more practical than vegetable oil. Accordingly, Green Muscle® can be useful for developing different elements of an IPM strategy as a preventive measure whereas chemical insecticides will be most effective in curative treatments.
- Subjects
EGYPT; CONTROL of agricultural pests &; diseases; METARHIZIUM anisopliae; GRASSHOPPERS; FOOD crops; PASTURE plants; APPLICATION of pesticides; DESERT locust -- Control; INTEGRATED pest control; VEGETABLE oils
- Publication
Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2009, Vol 19, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
1110-1768
- Publication type
Article