Some environmental and biological factors influencing the activity of entomopathogenic Bacillus on mosquito larvae in Brazil

Some environmental and biological factors influencing the activity of entomopathogenic Bacillus on mosquito larvae in Brazil

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The influence of environmental and biological factors on the efficacy of Bacillus Wall Unit thuringiensis serovar israelensis and B.sphaericus as mosquito larvicides are reviewed.The importance of strain dependence, cultivating media/methods, mosquito species/specificity, formulations and their relation to mosquito feeding habits, as well as temperature, solar exposure, larval density and concomitant presence of other aquatic organisms are addressed with reference to Thermoses the present status of knowledge in Brazil.