Species
Beauveria bassiana (Icing sugar fungus)
Beauveria bassiana. Photo: (c) Dougal Townsend, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the entomopathogenic fungi. It is being used as a biological insecticide to control a number of pests such as termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids and different beetles. Its use in the control of bedbugs and malaria-transmitting mosquitos is under investigation.
Sightings
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