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white muscadine disease |
Photo by Louis Tedders, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org
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Taxonomy |
| Kingdom: |
Fungi |
| Phylum: |
Ascomycota |
| Class: |
Incertae sedis |
| Order: |
Incertae sedis |
| Family: |
Incertae sedis |
| Genus: |
Beauveria |
| Species: |
bassiana |
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Scientific Name |
Beauveria bassiana
(Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. |
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Beauveria bassiana is a naturally occurring fungus disease that affects a very wide range of insects - including aphids, whiteflies, psyllids, billbugs and caterpillars. Environmental conditions, particularly humidity, seem critical for the applied spores to successfully germinate and infect insects. Newly infected insects often are somewhat light brown; when the fungus sporulates it covers the insect with white spores. Available formulations are sold as Mycotrol and Naturalis.
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