A Review of Commercial Metarhizium - and Beauveria -Based Biopesticides for the Biological Control of Ticks in the USA

There is a need for the development of sustainable, nonchemical tick management strategies. Mycoacaricide and mycoinsecticide product development worldwide has focused primarily on fungi in the genera (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae) and (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae). Microbial biopesticides containi...

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Published in:Insects (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2022-03, Vol.13 (3), p.260
Main Authors: Sullivan, Cheryl Frank, Parker, Bruce L, Skinner, Margaret
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acaricides
Arachnids
Arthropods
Beauveria
Biological control
Biopesticides
Commercialization
Entomopathogenic fungi
Fungi
Hypocreales
Integrated approach
Laboratories
Management
Metarhizium
microbial biopesticide
Microorganisms
Mortality
Pathogens
Pesticides
Product development
Review
Sustainable development
Ticks
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Summary:There is a need for the development of sustainable, nonchemical tick management strategies. Mycoacaricide and mycoinsecticide product development worldwide has focused primarily on fungi in the genera (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae) and (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae). Microbial biopesticides containing entomopathogenic fungi have potential in tick management. However, despite considerable progress in the development of fungal biopesticides over the past 20 years, the establishment of commercial products available for use against ticks continues to be slow. We reviewed published scientific literature and compiled a comprehensive list of reports of the effectiveness of commercial biopesticides based on the fungal genera and and registered for use in the USA against ixodid ticks under laboratory and field conditions. We also report on results when these biopesticides were used as a part of integrated tick management. Until efficacious fungus-based products become more available, tick management will rely primarily on synthetic chemical acaricides, with natural-product acaricides as the alternative.
ISSN:2075-4450
2075-4450
DOI:10.3390/insects13030260