In vitro pathogenicity of the fungi Beauveria bassiana and Lecanicillium lecanii at different temperatures against the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 3 Factorial analysis of variance of mortality of Bemisia tabaci bioassay with the filtrate of two strains of Beauveria bassiana and one strain of Lecanicillium lecanii

Source	DF	SS	MS	F value	p value
Fungus	3	1472.2	490.7	1114.2	≤ 0.001
Days	3	097.0	365.6	830.2	≤ 0.001
Temperature	3	276.2	92.0	209.0	≤ 0.001
Fungus × days	9	317.4	35.2	80.0	≤ 0.001
Fungus × temperature	9	90.4	10.0	22.8	≤ 0.001
Days × temperature	9	90.3	10.0	22.7	≤ 0.001
Fungus × days × temperature	27	31.5	1.1	2.6	≤ 0.001
Error	576	253.7	0.4
Total	639	629.1
CV/GM	23.43/2.83

*p < 0.001 (highly significant) three-way factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) at α = 0.05. DF degree of freedom, SS sum of squares, MS mean sum of squares, F F-statistic, CV coefficient of variation, GM grand mean