Global food security is threatened by insect pests of economically important crops. Chemical
pesticides have been used frequently for the last few decades to manage insect pests …

The development and use of entomopathogens as classical, conservation and augmentative
biological control agents have included a number of successes and some setbacks in the …

The genus Metarhizium and Pochonia chlamydosporia comprise a monophyletic clade of
highly abundant globally distributed fungi that can transition between long-term beneficial …

One of the main negative effects of climate change on biological pest control is alteration of
relationships between insect pests and their natural enemies (both entomophagous and …

Insect pests persist in a wide-variety of agricultural, arboreal and urban environments.
Effective control with fungal entomopathogens using inundation biocontrol requires an …

Entomopathogenic ascomycetes (EA) are an important part of the microbiota in most
terrestrial ecosystems, where they can be found regulating natural populations of arthropod …

Traditionally, the soil has been considered the main reservoir of entomopathogenic
mitosporic ascomycetes (AMEs) together with the insect populations that they regulate …

The larval stages of click beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) species, several of which are
serious agricultural pests, are called wireworms. Their cryptic subterranean habitat …

Entomopathogenic fungi are often relied on as important components of integrated pest
management in tropical agriculture, either as biopesticides or as naturally occurring …

The entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana commonly causes disease on a range of
insects, including bark beetle pests of plantation forest trees. However, using broadcast …