2010
DOI: 10.1590/s0103-84782010005000100
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Seleção de isolados de Metarhizium anisopliae e Beauveria bassiana patogênicos a soldados de Atta bisphaerica e Atta sexdens rubropilosa em condições de laboratório

Abstract: As formigas do gênero Atta são pragas importantes de diversas culturas agrícolas, pastagens e reflorestamentos. Os fungos entomopatogênicos estão entre os fatores naturais de mortalidade dessas formigas e por isso apresentam potencial para serem usados no controle biológico dessa praga. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo selecionar isolados de Metarhizium anisopliae e Beauveria bassiana patogênicos a soldados de Atta bisphaerica e Atta sexdens rubropilosa em condições de laboratório. Para a avaliação da pa… Show more

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“…The Aspergillus ochraceus was the most frequent and, for the first time, reported to infect ants frequently. The mortality test results of ants infected with A. ochraceus and B. bassiana are similar to those obtained in other pathogenicity tests of B. bassiana or M. anisopliae against leaf-cutting ants [22][23][24]. Although the high control mortality indicates that the ants were stressed in some way (e.g., social isolation), and thus probably more susceptible to diseases, the parasite treatments caused significantly increased mortality.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
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“…The Aspergillus ochraceus was the most frequent and, for the first time, reported to infect ants frequently. The mortality test results of ants infected with A. ochraceus and B. bassiana are similar to those obtained in other pathogenicity tests of B. bassiana or M. anisopliae against leaf-cutting ants [22][23][24]. Although the high control mortality indicates that the ants were stressed in some way (e.g., social isolation), and thus probably more susceptible to diseases, the parasite treatments caused significantly increased mortality.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…and Beauveria bassiana (Bals.). They have proved to be highly virulent in the laboratory, although field tests do not reproduce the same results [20][21][22]. In our study, M. anisopliae was not found and B. bassiana was obtained only once.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 64%
“…Baits containing these pathogens gave 20%-70% efficiency in controlling the Acromyrmex species [90,91] and A. sexdens [92]. The ENA04 isolate of M. anisopliae was found to be most pathogenic to the A. bisphaerica soldiers, with a TL 50 of 1.15 days, with more than 80% mortality during the first three days of application, and high spore production on ant cadavers [93]. The insecticide imidacloprid, at very low concentrations, applied with B. bassiana, can change ant behavior and increase its susceptibility to this fungus [94].…”
Section: Biological Controlmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Previous experiments on F. selysi found that, for the S2 strain of B. bassiana that we collected from our field site, this concentration resulted in intermediate mortality rates (Reber and Chapuisat, in press). A similarly high concentration of conidia has also been used in other studies on the response of different insects to B. bassiana (e.g., Castilho et al 2010;Mukawa et al 2011). The first callow worker from each rearing group was randomly assigned to either the fungal exposure or the control treatment.…”
Section: Callow Survival and Fungal Challengementioning
confidence: 99%