{"title":"REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF TWO SPECIES OF ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODES ON GRATE WAX MOTH LARVAE (GALLERIA MELLONELLA)","authors":"Radijana Đekanović, B. Nježić","doi":"10.46793/sbt27.413dj","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Local populations of two species of entomopathogenic nematodes Steinernema carpocapsae andS. feltiaewere tested in laboratory conditions with the aim to evaluate their reproductive potential on the larvae of grate wax moth (Galleria mellonella). The optimal productivity of infective dauers was obtained with the dose of 60 and 120 nematodes per larva, of 285.283,3 and 114.018 nematodes per cadaver, or 1.506 and 546,7 nematodes per mg of an insect. Both strains revealed high virulence and good reproducibility and present potential for application as biological control agents.","PeriodicalId":212864,"journal":{"name":"Zbornik radova / XXVII savetovanje o biotehnologiji sa međunarodnim učešćem","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zbornik radova / XXVII savetovanje o biotehnologiji sa međunarodnim učešćem","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46793/sbt27.413dj","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Local populations of two species of entomopathogenic nematodes Steinernema carpocapsae andS. feltiaewere tested in laboratory conditions with the aim to evaluate their reproductive potential on the larvae of grate wax moth (Galleria mellonella). The optimal productivity of infective dauers was obtained with the dose of 60 and 120 nematodes per larva, of 285.283,3 and 114.018 nematodes per cadaver, or 1.506 and 546,7 nematodes per mg of an insect. Both strains revealed high virulence and good reproducibility and present potential for application as biological control agents.