USE OF ENTOMOPATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS IN THE CONTROL OF HARMFUL INSECTS IN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

  • Ljubiša Vasiljević
  • Marko Injac
Publication date
January 1974
Publisher
Croatian society of agronomist
Language
Croatian

Abstract

The insect micro-organisms, like most pathogens of other vertebrates, are the integral part of the ecosystem and play in the nature an important part in the regulation of their host\u27s numbers. However, their mass rearing and use as an active agent in the control of harmful insects is of recent date. For the time being, the industrial production of preparations is based on entomopathogenic organisms belonging only to few groups: a) Entomopathogenic fungi There exists, for the present, but a single semi-industrial preparation of Soviet production „Boverin“ which is used for the control of harmful insects in the soil, such as: B. punctiventris Germ., cockshafer (M. melolontha L.) and some others. b) Entomopathogenic bacteria For industrial...

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