Impact of Metarhizium brunneum (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) on pre-imaginal Rhagoletis indifferens (Diptera: Tephritidae) within and on the surface of orchard soil
Citation
Cossentine, J., Jaronski, S., Thistlewood, H., Yee, W. (2011). Impact of Metarhizium brunneum (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) on pre-imaginal Rhagoletis indifferens (Diptera: Tephritidae) within and on the surface of orchard soil. Biocontrol Science and Technology, [online] 21(12), 1501-1505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2011.625397
Abstract
When last instar laboratory-reared Rhagoletis indifferens were allowed to pupate within non-sterile orchard soil containing incorporated Metarhizium brunneum isolate F52 conidia, a dose-related proportion died from developmental abnormalities and mycosis. When larvae entered soil superficially treated with M. brunneum, over 80% of the pupae died of developmental abnormalities. © 2011 Copyright Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.