Table 1.

Direct contact bioassay using oil-emulsion formulated conidia and non-formulated conidia at different concentrations.

Direct Contact Bioassay
Treatment	95% Confidence Level
	LT50 (Days)	Lower Bound	Upper Bound	R2
Oil-emulsion formulated conidia
1 × 103 conidia mL−1	49.865 ab	5.165	21.025	0.837
1 × 105 conidia mL−1	18.0359 bc	13.499	29.358	0.959
1 × 107 conidia mL−1	8.951 de	35.404	51.263	0.959
1 × 109 conidia mL−1	8.183 c	39.689	55.549	0.988
Non-formulated conidia suspension
1 × 103 conidia mL−1	70.721 a	−2.454	13.406	0.915
1 × 105 conidia mL−1	27.273 ab	5.880	21.739	0.926
1 × 107 conidia mL−1	11.496 cd	23.499	39.358	0.874
1 × 109 conidia mL−1	8.716 de	35.880	51.739	0.949
Positive controls
Cypermethrin (pesticides)	5.138 f	63.909	75.116	0.898
Ory-X (mycoinsecticides)	0	0	0	0
Negative control
0.05% Tween 80	0	0	0	0
Emulsion blank

Note: According to the Student-Newman-Keuls post hoc test, the LT₅₀ values followed by different letters are significantly different at p = 0.05 (n = 30). ‘0’ represents zero mortality.