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Overcoming Immune Deficiency with Allogrooming

Insects, 2023
Allogrooming appears to be essential in many social animals for protection from routine exposure to parasites. In social insects, it appears to be critical for the removal of pathogenic propagules from the cuticle before they can start an infectious ...
Mark S. Bulmer, Bruno A. Franco, Aditi Biswas, Samantha F. Greenbaum   +3 more
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Deep space and hidden depths: understanding the evolution and ecology of fungal entomopathogens

, 2009
Entomopathogens are important natural enemies of many insect and mite species and as such have been recognised as providing an important ecosystem service.
Vega, F. E., Goettel, Mark S., Chandler, D., Roy, H. E., Wajnberg, E., Goettel, M. S., Brodie, E. L., Pell, Judith K., Pell, J. K., Vega, Fernando E., Brodie, Eoin L., Wajnberg, Eric, Chandler, Dave, Roy, Helen E., Brodie, Eoin, Goettel, Mark, Pell, Judith, Roy, Helen, Vega, Fernando   +18 more
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Microbial Biopesticides in Agroecosystems

Agronomy, 2018
Microbial biopesticides include several microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, baculoviruses, and nematode-associated bacteria acting against invertebrate pests in agro-ecosystems.
Luca Ruiu
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Cladosporium—Insect Relationships

Journal of Fungi
The range of interactions between Cladosporium, a ubiquitous fungal genus, and insects, a class including about 60% of the animal species, is extremely diverse.
Rosario Nicoletti, Elia Russo, Andrea Becchimanzi   +2 more
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External immunity in ant societies: sociality and colony size do not predict investment in antimicrobials [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Social insects live in dense groups with a high probability of disease transmission and have therefore faced strong pressures to develop defences against pathogens.
Clint A. Penick, Omar Halawani, Bria Pearson, Stephanie Mathews, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Robert R. Dunn, Adrian A. Smith   +6 more
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Effectiveness of Entomopathogenic Fungi on Immature Stages and Feeding Performance of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae

Insects, 2021
Maize is a major staple crop in China, and the sustainable productivity of this primary crop has been recently threatened by fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, invasion. The five fungal isolates, Aspergillus sp.
Atif Idrees, Ziyad Abdul Qadir, Komivi Senyo Akutse, Ayesha Afzal, Mubasher Hussain, Waqar Islam, Muhammad Saad Waqas, Bamisope Steve Bamisile, Jun Li   +8 more
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The functional role of ants in no‐till cropping systems

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Ants provide valuable ecosystem services in tropical agriculture, but their roles in temperate row crops remain poorly understood. Conservation practices such as no‐till farming and cover cropping support ant communities that contribute to pest suppression, weed seed removal, and soil quality, which can increase crop productivity.
Adegboyega O. Fajemisin, Andrew V. Suarez, John F. Tooker   +2 more
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Biological control of Spodoptera frugiperda (Nixon) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in new invaded countries using insect pathogens

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control
Background The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Nixon) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is the major insect pest that infests cereal crops recently in African and Asian countries.
Mohamed Samir Tawfik Abbas
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Biostimulant and Bioinsecticidal Effect of Coating Cotton Seeds with Endophytic Beauveria bassiana in Semi-Field Conditions

Microorganisms, 2023
Increasing commercial demands from the textile and food industries are putting strong pressure on the cultivation of cotton and its derivatives to produce high yields.
Spiridon Mantzoukas, Vasileios Papantzikos, Spiridoula Katsogiannou, Areti Papanikou, Charalampos Koukidis, Dimitrios Servis, Panagiotis Eliopoulos, George Patakioutas   +7 more
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Behavioural responses of peach potato aphid, Myzus persicae Sulzer (Hemiptera: Aphididae), to entomopathogenic fungi infected conspecifics

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Myzus persicae showed no detectable behavioural response to Beauveria bassiana‐colonised agar alone. Aphids spent significantly more time in odour fields containing EPF‐infected conspecifics than healthy aphids, agar or blank air. EPF infection may alter host‐associated odours, suggesting pathogen‐mediated cues could influence aphid behaviour and ...
Ben J. Clunie, Thomas Bluck, Imogen Crowe, Devan Coyne, Aidan Smith, Tom W. Pope, Joe M. Roberts   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source