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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 2 Impact of entomopathogenic fungi (Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae) on corrected population reduction (%) of Bactrocera cucurbitae under field conditions (pooled data 2017 and 2018)

From: Efficacy of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) against Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae) under controlled and open-field conditions on bitter gourd

Treatments

3 DAT

6 DAT

9 DAT

12 DAT

15 DAT

18 DAT

21 DAT

24 DAT

27 DAT

30 DAT

B. bassiana

26.47b

31.58b

35.63b

44.41b

51.23a

56.58a

60.06a

64.85a

66.71a

68.59a

M. anisopliae

21.08c

23.62c

28.13c

32.66c

36.85b

41.34b

43.9b

45.09b

46.94b

48.60b

Malathion

39.1a

58.83a

63.8a

53.07a

41.53b

30.62c

20.87c

16.24c

15.09c

13.13c

  1. Means followed by the same letter in each column are not significantly different according to HSD (P = 0.05) (DAT: days after treatment)
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