Table 5. Mean mortality (% ± SE) of adults of red palm weevil treated with Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana under laboratory conditions.

Treatments	Mortality (%)	Mortality time (days)	Number of eggs laid by RPW females/day
Control (water)	0 ± 0 b	0 ± 0 b	4.2 ± 0.1 a
Beauveria bassiana (BbSA-1)	61 ± 5.5 a	16.8 ± 0.6 a	3 ± 0.1 b
Metarhizium anisopliae (MaSA-1)	74.3 ± 7.7 a	15 ± 0 a	3 ± 0.1 b

Means followed by the same letter in the same column are not significant different at α: 0.05.