EFFICACY OF BACILLUS SPHAERICUSSTRAIN 1593 AGAINST THE FOUR INSTARS OF LABORATORY REARED AND FIELD COLLECTED CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENSAND LABORATORY REARED CULEX SALINARIUS1

Autor: Wraight, Stephen P., Molloy, Daniel, Jamnback, Hugo
Zdroj: The Canadian Entomologist; May 1981, Vol. 113 Issue: 5 p379-386, 8p
Abstrakt: AbstractCulex pipiens pipiensand C. salinariuswere found equally susceptible in laboratory tests to Bacillus sphaericusstrain 1593 with LC50 values for the four instars ranging between 20 and 137 ppb (approximately 820 and 5600 spores/ml). Tests against field collected C. p. pipienslarvae revealed a regularly decreasing susceptibility with increasing larval age, the first instars being between 2 and 5 times more susceptible than fourth instars. In contrast, no significant differences in the susceptibility of second, third, and fourth instars were found in tests of laboratory reared larvae.
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