008 Virulence of Entomopathogenic Fungi (Hyphomycetes) against Anthonomus fulvipes (Coleoptera:Curculionidae) in Organically Grown Barbados Cherry Trees: Laboratory and Field Trials
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Virulence of several isolates of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill., Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) Sor. and Paecilomyces fumosoroseus (Wize) Brown & Smith were evaluated on adult weevils of Anthonomus fulvipes Boheman at dose of 10 8 spores/mL under laboratory conditions. The study was complemented by testing one isolate each of M. anisopliae and P. fumosoroseus against adult weevils on organically grown Barbados cherry trees at dose of 2 × 10 15 spores/ha. All fungi species showed high virulence against A. fulvipes adults, with mortality ranging from 92% to 100%. LT 50 values varied 2.7 to 4.8 d. The M. anisopliae isolate 10, and the P. fumosoroseus isolate 1 were selected for field evaluation because laboratory insect cadavers presented the best sporulation. After applying the fungi to the trees, total weevil captures were 38, 56, and 100 for the P. fumosoroseus, M. anisopliae, and the check (untreated) plots, respectively. Statistical differences in fruit damage were detected among treatments: M. anisopliae and P. fumosoroseus treatments showed an average of 50% of undamaged fruits, whereas in the control plots presented 36% of undamaged fruits. Laboratory and field experiments suggest that entomopathogenic fungi have a potential as microbial control agents against the weevil A. fulvipes in organically grown Barbados cherry trees.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".