ABSTRACT
The isolation and culture of insect and other arthropod pathogenic fungi (Leite et al., 2000; Freimoser et al., 2000) may ultimately be useful in the discovery and use for the biocontrol of human pests. Onofre et al. (2001) have tested two isolates each of two species of entompathogenic fungi against the bovine tick Boophilus microplus. The fungus Metarhizium flavoviride proved to be more effective against adult ticks, reducing both larval emergence from eggs, and reproductive efficiency, than M. anisopilae (Table 4.19).
