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Salud Pública de México
Print version ISSN 0036-3634
Abstract
MENDOZA-LEDESMA, Mercedes Nathalie and GALVEZ-COUTINO, Olga Ruth. Effect of the combination of Metarhizium anisopliae and Gliocladium virens on the oviposition, hatching and emergency of Aedes aegypti. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2020, vol.62, n.4, pp.410-416. Epub May 16, 2022. ISSN 0036-3634. https://doi.org/10.21149/11035.
Objective:
To evaluate the effect of the combination of Metarhizium anisopliae and Gliocladium virens, both with Aqua Reslin Super, on the oviposition, hatching and emergence of Aedes aegypti.
Materials and methods:
Evaluations were carried out to determine the effect of treatments impregnated on filter paper and exposed within plastic containers on the oviposition, hatching and emergency of Aedes aegypti.
Results:
The results indicated that the fungus and insecticide combinations did not affect the oviposition behavior, but if the hatching of the eggs and the adult’s emergency.
Conclusion:
With the results it can be concluded that the combination of fungi + insecticide can be a good option to be applied in oviposition sites with a view to the development of a lethal ovitrap.
Keywords : Metarhizium anisopliae; Gliocladium virens; Aedes aegypti; ovitrap; insecticide; dengue.