PMID: 9446740Feb 3, 1998Paper

Effect of Soil Texture and Soil Sterilization on Susceptibility of Ovipositing Grasshoppers to Beauveria bassiana

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
G D InglisM S Goettel

Abstract

The effect of conidial concentration, soil texture, and soil sterilization on the efficacy of Beauveria bassiana against ovipositing grasshoppers (Melanoplus sanguinipes) was investigated in a controlled environment. In the first experiment, mortality of female grasshoppers ovipositing into a sterile loamy-sand soil containing conidia of B. bassiana was measured. The prevalence of mortality increased as the concentration of conidia in soil increased, and a median lethal concentration of 10(4) colony-forming units (CFU) per gram of soil (dry weight) was observed. Conidia (10(2.9) to 10(3) CFU per abdomen) were recovered from the abdomens of grasshoppers ovipositing into sand containing 10(5.5) and 10(6) conidia per gram. Similar numbers of eggs were laid among treatments during the first oviposition period (1 to 7 days), but an effect of conidial concentration on eggs laid was observed during the second oviposition period (8 to 14 days). This was attributed to reduction in female numbers and not to reduction in fecundity independent of mortality. In a second experiment, grasshoppers oviposited into soils of three different textures (loamy-sand, sandy-loam, or clay-loam) that were amended with 10(5) B. bassiana conidia per gram a...Continue Reading

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