Selection of entomopathogenic fungi for use in combination with sub-lethal doses of imidacloprid: Perspectives for the control of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Mycopathologia

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 233-240

  Santos, Adão Valmir ^a   De Oliveira, Bruno Lorenz ^a   Samuels, Richard Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; Biological control; Insecticide; Metarhizium anisopliae

Indexed keywords

IMIDACLOPRID; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; NITRO DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METARHIZIUM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEAUVERIA; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; METARHIZIUM; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

ATTA; ATTA SEXDENS RUBROPILOSA; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 34247226591     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-007-9009-8     Document Type: Article

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