Table 1.
Field surveys of soil and leaf litter for potential entomopathogenic fungi
| Sample type | Quadrat | No. samples | No. fungal colonies | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metarhizium | Beauveria | Paecilomyces | Other | |||
| Soil | G1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| G6 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| B1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| B6 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| E4 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| B3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| D1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | |
| G3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| D6 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 90 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 16 | |
| Leaf litter | G1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| B1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| B6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| E4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| B3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| D1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| G3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| D6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
Fungi obtained by direct plating on half-strength PDA containing a penicillin-streptomycin solution.