Pecan Weevil: Suppression of Larvae with the Fungi Metarrhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana and the Nematode Neoaplectana dutkyi13

1 June 1973

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology

Vol. 66 (3) , 723-726
https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/66.3.723

Abstract

Metarrhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin, Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin, and Neoaplectana dulkyi Jackson, were evaluated in the laboratory and in the field as pathogens of larvae of the pecan weevil, Curculio caryae (Horn). Selected treatments with these pathogens significantly increased mortality of larvae in field experiments within 20 days after soil treatment. Effectiveness of pathogens varied with isolate, culture technique, and method of application.

Keywords

PREDATORS
CONTROL
NUTS
NEMATOLOGY
TESTING
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
PLANT PATHOLOGY

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