Beauveria bassiana (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Repel Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae)
The entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Bb) is used to control the red palm weevil (RPW) Rhyncophorus ferrugineus Sports Accessories (Oliver).Beuveria bassiana can infect and kill all developmental stages of RPW.We found that a solid formulate of B.bassiana isolate 203 (Bb203; CBS 121097), obtained from naturally infected RPW adults, repels