Efficacy of Beauveria bassiana for red flour beetle when applied with plant essential oils or in mineral oil and organosilicone carriers

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 683-688

  Akbar, Waseem ^a,b   Lord, Jeffrey C ^c   Nechols, James R ^a   Loughin, Thomas M ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GRAIN MARKETING AND PRODUCTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; Botanical insecticides; Mineral oil; Silwet L 77; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

BASSIANA; BEAUVERIA; COLEOPTERA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ESSENTIAL OIL; INSECTICIDE; MINERAL OIL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; HYPOCREALES; INSECTICIDES; MINERAL OIL; OILS, VOLATILE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT OILS; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 20544476174     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-0493-98.3.683     Document Type: Article

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