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 103–105 conidia/ml. The lethal time to 50 % mortality (LT50) values ranged between 0.44–1.3 days.
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1 March 2010
Laboratory Screening of Insecticidal Activities of Beauveria bassiana and Paecilomyces lilacinus Against Larval and Adult House Fly (Musca domestica L.)
L.A. Mwamburi,
M.D. Laing,
R.M. Miller
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Beauveria bassiana
biological control
entomopathogen