Title
Efficacy of Bacillus sphaericus 2362 in the controllarvae of Anopheles pseudopunctipennis (Theobald, 1901) and Culex quinquefasciatus (Say, 1823) in laboratory bioassays
Other title
[Eficacia del BacĂ­llus sphaericus 2362 en el control de larvas de Anopheles pseudopunctipennis (Theobald, 1901) Y Culex quinquefasciatus (Say, 1823) en bioensayos de laboratorio]
Date Issued
01 January 2000
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Fac. Of Biological Sci.
Abstract
Bacillus sphaericus 2362 liquid formulation, activity against Anopheles pseudopunctipennis and Culex quinquefasciatus larvae was tested in laboratory bioassays. Breeding place water and distilled water were used with concentrations of 1 x 10", 1 ,5 x 1 O" , 2,5 x 10", 3,9 x 1 O" spores/mL. Target population was kept in laboratory conditions by using breeding native water and flora. One mL doses were added into test cups containing 25 II and III stage larvae and 150 mL of breeding water or distilled respectively; cups tests with the same amount of water and larvae were used as controls for each concentration , water type and larval specie tested. Testing was made three times for each concentration in laboratory conditions. Twelve replicas were made and divided in six for each species. using a total of 4800 larvae for species. Reading of larvae mortality were at 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours after addition of Bacillus sphaericus. It was observed the high susceptibility of Culex quinquefasciatus to Bacillus sphaericus 2362, with an overall mortality > 90% as compared with treated and controls (pvalue = 0,031 and 0,012 for each type of water respectively) at 48 hours and with a concentration of 1,5 x 10" sporesimL. It was widely demonstrated that Anopheles pseudopunctipennĂ­s is not susceptible to Bacillus sphaericus 2362 in laboratory bioassays and no significant differences were found in treatments with different types of water (p-value > 0,05).
Start page
176
End page
190
Volume
7
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
EpidemiologĂ­a ParasitologĂ­a
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84985952081
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
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