Food Availability and Period of Exposure as Factors of Bacillus sphaericus Efficacy on Mosquito Larvae12
- 31 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 72 (4) , 523-525
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/72.4.523
Abstract
Efficacy of the mosquito pathogen Bacillus sphaericus Neide strain 1593 was inversely related to the amount of food available to mosquito larvae. The rate of bacterial uptake differed between larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus Say and Anopheles albimanus Wiedemann. Larvae of C. quinquefasciatus consumed lethal quantities rapidly (from 5 min on) after bacterial application whereas those of A. albimanus did so less rapidly, resulting in low mortality even after 90 min of incubation at a high dosage (7×107 cells/ml).This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Bioassay of three strains of Bacillus sphaericus on field-collected mosquito larvaeJournal of Invertebrate Pathology, 1977
- Bacillus sphaericus Neide as a pathogen of mosquitoesJournal of Invertebrate Pathology, 1965