Assessing effectiveness of an alternate management system for termites in sugarcane plantation

Occurrence of Tectona grandis Stem Injury Caused by Cornitermes cumulans Termite

“…In the sugarcane industry, attractive cardboard traps impregnated with 0.1g of entomopathogenic fungi conidia Beauveria bassiana and/or Metarhizium anisopliae or their association with the insecticide fipronil 0.003% are used to control C. cumulans (Almeida et al, 2000;Chakraborti, 2017). This technique consists in maximizing the action of the entomopathogenic fungus on the termite population contaminated with an insecticide at the sub-lethal dose, while the workers feed on the cardboard trap (Almeida et al, 2000).…”