Control of tick populations by spraying Metarhizium anisopliae conidia on cattle under field conditions

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 273-281

  Kaaya, G P ^a   Samish, M ^b   Hedimbi, M ^a   Gindin, G ^b   Glazer, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biological control; Formulation; Metarhizium anisopliae; Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) decoloratus; Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CATTLE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; ESSENTIAL OIL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; FUNGUS; GRAZING; LABORATORY METHOD; MORTALITY; PEST CONTROL; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPORE; TICK; WEIGHT; CHEMICAL COMPOUND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CATTLE; FEMALE; FUNGUS SPORE; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; METARHIZIUM; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; RHIPICEPHALUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; CATTLE; FEMALE; MALE; METARHIZIUM; RHIPICEPHALUS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TICK CONTROL;

BOOPHILUS; BOS; FUNGI; HELIANTHUS; IXODIDA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS EVERTSI EVERTSI;

EID: 80355143738     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-011-9471-3     Document Type: Article

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