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AFRICAN ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 38-46Publisher
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOC SOUTHERN AFRICA
DOI: 10.4001/003.018.0106
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Beauveria bassiana; biological control; entomopathogen
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- Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS)
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Thirty-four fungal isolates of Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin (Hyphomycete: Deuteromycetes) and two isolates of Paecilomyces lilacinus were evaluated in vitro for their entomopathogenic activity against larval and adult house fly, Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae). Of the fungal isolates tested, B. bassiana isolates were pathogenic to adult flies, causing mortality levels of 30-100 % within six days. The P. lilacinus isolates were non-pathogenic towards adult flies. All the fungal isolates were marginally effective in controlling house fly larvae except isolates of P.lilacinus. Four B. bassiana isolates that caused mortality of 90 % or more within two days were subjected to dose-response mortality bioassays. The lethal concentration of B. bassiana isolates that caused 50 % mortality (LC50) ranged between 10(3)-10(5) conidia/ml. The lethal time to 50 % mortality (LT50) values ranged between 0.44-1.3 days.
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