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INCIDENCE OF OCCURRENCE OF BEAUVERIA BASSIANA IN FOREST COLLECTIONS OF HYLOBIUS PALES AND PACHYLOBIUS PICIVORUS WEEVILS (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John W. Taylor Jr.
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens
Rudolph T. Franklin
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens

Abstract

Laboratory assay showed Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. to be present in approximately 15% of the combined populations of forest collected living Hylobius pales and Pachylobius picivorus.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1973

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