Table 3 Viability (%) and reduction of the beneficial capacity (% E) of the parasitoid Cleruchoides noackae (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) on Thaumastocoris peregrinus (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) eggs treated with the fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae and with the chemical bifenthrin after one and 10 days of parasitism (temp.: 25 ± 1° C, RH: 70 ± 10% and photophase: 12 h) and class of these insecticides (Cl.).

From: Selectivity of mycoinsecticides and a pyrethroid to the egg parasitoid Cleruchoides noackae (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)

Treatments

Viability (%)

1 Day

%Ea

Cl

10 days

%Ea

Cl

Control

99.36 ± 4.4Aa

0.00

1

94.92 ± 9.6Aa

0.00

-

Beauveria bassiana

94.64 ± 7.3Aa

4.75

1

90.55 ± 12.9Aa

4.60

1

Metarhizium anisopliae

86.42 ± 13.4Aab

13.02

1

93.33 ± 14.9Aa

1.68

1

Bifenthrin

69.44 ± 16.1Ab

30.11

2

62.57 ± 23.2Ab

34.08

2

  1. Means followed by the same uppercase letter per line or lower case per column do not differ according to the Tukey test (p ≤ 0.05).
  2. a%E: reduction in the beneficial capacity of the parasitoid.
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