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Title: AUTODISSEMINATION OF ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI INTO A POPULATION OF JAPANESE BEETLE

Author
item GRUNDLER, J - MO DEPT AGRICULTURE
item Klein, Michael

Submitted to: Entomological Society of America Miscellaneous Publications
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/30/1996
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Attractant traps were used for autodissemination of Metarhizium anisopliae into a localized population of Japanese beetles at Meramec State Park in Sullivan, Missouri. Forty traps were placed in a 8.09 hectare area on 10 June, 1996. Conidia were mixed with corn starch in a 1:5 gram ratio. The mixture was placed in a petri dish within each trap and was replaced each week as needed. Beetles were collected weekly from vegetation within the trapping area and from a geographically separated area in the park which served as a control site. Mortality and conidia on collected beetles were monitored in the laboratory. Soil samples were taken from each site to determine the presence of M. anisopliae conidia.