Table 6.

Fungal species isolated from 12 X. bispinatus beetles and their galleries collected from either avocado- or silkbay-based media. Fungi were isolated from the head and pronotum or from the body, when head and pronotum were lacking.

Treatments	Species	Medium Containing Avocado Sawdust					Medium Containing Silkbay Sawdust
		Head and Pronotum		Body a		Gallery	Head and Pronotum		Body a		Gallery
		Avg. CFU/Beetle	Freq. n/N	Avg. CFU/Beetle	Freq. n/N	Freq. n/N	Avg. CFU/Beetle	Freq. n/N	Avg. CFU/Beetle	Freq. n/N	Freq. n/N
Media inoculated with R. lauricola	Raffaelea arxii	125	10/12	0	0/12	0/12	70.2	7/12	0	0/12	0/12
	Raffaelea lauricola	4.67	3/12	0	0/12	8/12	23.8	6/12	23	1/12	6/12
	Raffaelea subalba	474.5	11/12	0	0/12	0/12	229	11/12	117	9/12	10/12
	Raffaelea subfusca	0	0/12	0	0/12	9/12	0	0/12	0	0/12	0/12
	Phaeoacremonium inflatipes	0	0/12	0	0/12	4/12	0	0/12	0	0/12	2/12
	Candida multigemmis	9.1	9/12	0	0/12	0/12	80.1	9/12	0	0/12	0/12
Media non-inoculated with R. lauricola	Raffaelea arxii	40.5	9/12	0	0/12	0/12	42	3/12	0	0/12	0/12
	Raffaelea lauricola	0	0/12	0	0/12	0/12	0	0/12	0	0/12	0/12
	Raffaelea subalba	199.7	11/12	0	0/12	0/12	253.1	12/12	0	0/12	0/12
	Raffaelea subfusca	35.2	12/12	0	0/12	10/12	0	0/12	0	0/12	11/12
	Phaeoacremonium inflatipes	0	0/12	0	0/12	0/12	0	0/12	0	0/12	4/12
	Candida multigemmis	37.3	10/12	0	0/12	0/12	29.7	10/12	0	0/12	0/12
	Alloascoidea sp.	0	0/12	0	0/12	6/12	0	0/12	0	0/12	0/12

^a Body separated from the head and pronotum. Freq. = Frequency of fungal species detected; Avg. = Average; n = number of beetle body parts or number of galleries that were positive for a fungal species; N = Number of beetles or galleries tested for a specific fungus.