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Evaluation of the entomopathogenic fungus beauveria bassiana and its prospects in controlling the red palm weevil rhynchophorus ferrugineus olivier /

Saeed Ali Saeed Alawaash

Evaluation of the entomopathogenic fungus beauveria bassiana and its prospects in controlling the red palm weevil rhynchophorus ferrugineus olivier / و فرصته في مكافحة حشرة سوسة النخيل الحمراء Beauveria bassiana تقييم للفطر الممرض للحشرات Saeed Ali Saeed Alawaash ; Supervised Camal Hassan Sewify , Mohamad Helmy Belal , Refat Elmoursy Elsufty - Cairo : Saeed Ali Saeed Alawaash , 2010 - 119 P. : charts , photographs ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Economic Entomology and Pesticides

The entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. was evaluated as a biological control agent against the red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Oliv.) in United Arab Emirates and Egypt. In UAE, the fungus was studied using a local strain. For adult weevils, the calculated LC₅₀ was 6.3x10⁶ conidia /ml



Entomopathogenic fungus beauveria bassiana Red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus