Table 2.
Examples of common commercially available entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) and their target insect groups.
| Fungi | Target Pest | Crop | Product and Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauveria bassiana sensu lato | Psyllids, whiteflies, thrips, aphids, mites | crops | BOTE GHA (Certis, USA) |
| Flies, mites, thrips, leafhoppers, and weevils | cotton, glasshouse crops | NATURALIS (Troy Biosciences, USA) | |
| Coffee berry borer | coffee | CONIDIA (AgroEvo, Germany) | |
| Whiteflies, aphids, thrips | field crops | MYCOTROL (Bioworks, USA) | |
| Whiteflies, aphids, thrips | field crops | BOTANIGRAD (Bioworks, USA) | |
| Corn borer | maize | OSTRINIL (Arysta Lifescience, France) | |
| Spotted mite, eucalyptus weevil, coffee borer, and whitefly | crops | BOVERIL (Koppert, The Netherlands) | |
| Flies | BALANCE (Rincon-Vitova Insectaries, USA) | ||
| As soil treatment | crops | BEAUVERIA BASSIANA PLUS, (BuildASoil, USA) | |
| Whitefly | peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants | BEA-SIN (Agrobionsa, Mexico) | |
| B. brongniartii | May beetle | forests, vegetables, fruits, grasslands | MELOCONT PILZGERSTE (Samen-schwarzenberger, Austria) |
| Cockchafer larvae | Fruits, Meadows | BEAUPRO (Andermatt Biocontrol, Switzerland) | |
| Scarabs beetle larvae | sugarcane | BETEL (Natural Plant Protection, France) | |
| Cockchafer | fruits, Meadows | BEAUVERIA-SCHWEIZER (Eric Schweizer, Switzerland) | |
| Metarhizium anisopliae sensu lato | Sugar cane root leafhopper | sugarcane | METARRIL WP (Koppert, The Netherlands) |
| Cockroaches | houses | BIO-PATH (EcoScience, USA) | |
| Vine weevils, sciarid flies, wireworms and thrips pupae | glasshouse, ornamental crops | BIO 1020 (Bayer, Germany) | |
| White grubs | sugarcane | BIOCANE (BASF, Australia) | |
| termites | BIOBLAST (Paragon, USA) | ||
| Black vine weevil, strawberry root weevil, thrips | stored grains and crops | MET-52 (Novozymes, USA) | |
| Pepper weevil | chili and bell peppers | META-SIN (Agrobionsa, Mexico) | |
| M. acridum | Locusts and grasshoppers | crops | GREEN GUARD (BASF, Australia) |
| M. frigidum | Scarab larvae | crops | BIOGREEN (BASF, Australia) |
| M. brunneum | Wireworms | potato and asparagus crops | ATTRACAP (Biocare, Germany) |
| Cordyceps fumosorosea | Whiteflies | glasshouse crops | PREFERAL WG (Biobest, Belgium) |
| Aphids, Citrus psyllid, spider mite, thrips, whitefly | wide range of crops | PFR-97 20% WDG (Certis, USA) | |
| Whitefly | Peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants | BEA-SIN (Agrobionsa, Mexico) | |
| Cotton bullworm, Citrus psyllid | Field crops | CHALLENGER (Koppert, The Netherlands) | |
| Lecanicillium longisporum | Aphids | crops | VERTALEC (Koppert, The Netherlands) |
| Whiteflies, thrips | crops | MYCOTAL (Koppert, The Netherlands) | |
| L. lecanii | Aphids | peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants | VERTI-SIN (Agrobionsa, Mexico) |