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Metarhizium anisopliae treatment gave 68% fewer larvae of the overlapping Adoryphorus couloni population in 1990 than untreated plots.
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e0“The efficacy of Metarhizium anisopliae DAT F-001 against Adoryphorus couloni was examined over 4 years on a sheep grazing property ('Inverell') in central Tasmania”
e2“Reductions in larval numbers led to a greater retention of sown perennial grasses, reduced weed invasion and a 23% increase in pasture productivity in the autumn of 1992”
e4“The two sequential generations of the overlapping A. couloni larval populations had 68% (1990) and 65% (1992) fewer larvae in the treated plots than in the untreated plots”
Title
A. C. RATH; D. WORLEDGE; T. B. KOEN; et al. Biocontrol Science and Technology 1995. doi:10.1080/09583159550039639
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Association Metarhizium anisopliae application in midwinter 1989 resulted in 30.3% fewer Adoryphorus couloni larvae in treated plots by 21 weeks.
- Association Metarhizium anisopliae application in midwinter 1989 resulted in 57.8% fewer Adoryphorus couloni pupae by 27 weeks.
- Association In the first subsequent generation, Metarhizium anisopliae treatment gave 63.2% fewer Adoryphorus couloni larvae in 1991.
- Association In the second subsequent generation, Metarhizium anisopliae treatment gave 45.0% fewer Adoryphorus couloni larvae in 1993.
- Intervention effect Metarhizium anisopliae treatment gave 65% fewer larvae of the overlapping Adoryphorus couloni population in 1992 than untreated plots.
- Method / resource The Adoryphorus couloni population decline was consistent with a mortality model developed from laboratory data.
- Association Incorporating Metarhizium anisopliae into the soil did not reduce the numbers of non-target invertebrates.
- Association Reductions in larval numbers led to a greater retention of sown perennial grasses.
- Association Reductions in larval numbers reduced weed invasion in sown perennial grasses.
- Association Reductions in larval numbers were followed by a 23% increase in pasture productivity in autumn 1992.
- Observation The level of Metarhizium anisopliae DAT F-001 in the pasture remained close to the applied concentration.
- Association The level of Metarhizium anisopliae DAT F-001 in the pasture increased 10-fold when mummified cadavers were present from January to June 1990.
- Observation The level of the fungus in the soil was still twice the original applied concentration in March 1992.