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based on attracting and infecting adults.
Strains IBB020 and TMB04 of
I. fumosorosea
and
M. anisopliae,
respectively, caused low-
er mortality levels to adults, but were equal-
ly effective on larvae. Hence, they could be
considered as potential control agents into
an IPM plan against the pest.
Despite the lack of field data on the ef-
fectiveness of these strains, to the best of
our knowledge, this is the first attempt of
screening locally isolated entomopathogen-
ic fungi as biological control agents against
the introduced
S. acupuntatus
. Further re-
search in field applications and possibility of
transmission is needed in order to strength-
en current findings.
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