Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 4 Mortality percentage of Oryctes rhinoceros larvae treated with 10⁷ conidia/ml of Metarhizium isolates

From: Virulence of Metarhizium isolated from infected Oryctes rhinoceros L. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) larvae around coconut plantations in East Java, Indonesia

Isolates	Day after inoculation
Isolates	3	6	8	9	10	11	13	14	15
MaBe	0.00	23.33	46.67	56.67 a	63.33 cde	70.00 c	73.33 d	76.67 c	86.67 b
MaBl	0.00	20.00	30.00	36.67 b	50.00 de	70.00 c	80.00 cd	86.67 bc	90.00 ab
MaBo	0.00	6.67	20.00	36.67 b	46.67 e	63.33 c	80.00 cd	86.67 bc	96.67 a
MaJe	0.00	13.33	26.67	56.67 a	76.67 bc	83.33 bc	90.00 bcd	90.00 abc	93.33 ab
MaKa	0.00	26.67	36.67	56.67 a	60.00 cde	63.33 c	73.33 d	83.33 bc	86.67 b
MaLe	0.00	6.67	23.33	63.33 a	83.33 b	86.67 ab	96.67 ab	96.67 ab	96.67 a
MaMa	0.00	13.33	26.67	66.67 a	93.33 a	93.33 a	93.33 abc	96.67 ab	96.67 a
MaWa	0.00	20.00	36.67	53.33 ab	70.00 bc	96.67 a	100.00 a	100.00 a	100.00 a
MaWp	0.00	20.00	33.33	53.33 ab	66.67 cd	70.00 c	80.00 cd	86.67 bc	86.67 b
MaSi	0.00	16.67	36.67	46.67 ab	66.67 cd	80.00 bc	93.33 abc	93.33 abc	93.33 ab
MaSu	0.00	10.00	36.67	60.00 a	73.33 bc	83.33 bc	90.00 bcd	93.33 abc	96.67 a
MaSm	0.00	26.67	40.00	53.33 ab	70.00 bc	76.67 bc	83.33 bcd	86.67 bc	90.00 a
F value		1.95 ns	1.11 ns	5.18**	24.74**	12.24**	8.39**	4.78**	2.46*
HSD value				6.91	6.29	14.85	17.82	19.23	23.08

Different lowercase letters denote significant differences (ANOVA, Tukey’s test, P ≤ 0.05)
ns, not significantly different
*significantly different (P ≤ 0.05); **significantly different (P ≤ 0.01)

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