Evaluation Of Two Entomopathogenic Fungies Metarrhizium Sp. And Paecilomyces Sp. Against The Neonate Larvae Of Peach Flatheaded Rootborer Capnodis Tenebrionis

The Peach flatheaded rootborder Capnodis sp. is the most important insect which attack stone-fruits in Syria, Entomopathogenic fungi Metarrhizium sp. and Paecilomyces sp. were isolated from larvae of Capnodis tenebrionis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) attacking peach. This study was conducted to reveal the pathogenicity of the two fungies against the neonate larvae of Peach flatheaded rootborder, The two fungies were used in a concentration 106 conidia/ml, dipping the larvae in fungal suspension ,then it was put in apricot branches by approximately 1 cm diameter, and mortality rates two weeks after inoculation with the suspension of each of the fungi was 95% for Metarrhizium sp. and 85% for Paecilomyces sp.