Cannibalism in mosquito larvae during microbial larvicide potency tests.

Culex pipiens Lysinibacillus sphaericus (Bacillus sphaericus) bioassay intraspecific predation larval feeding larval starvation

Journal

Folia parasitologica
ISSN: 1803-6465
Titre abrégé: Folia Parasitol (Praha)
Pays: Czech Republic
ID NLM: 0065750

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Jan 2020
Historique:
received: 23 02 2019
accepted: 13 12 2019
entrez: 1 5 2020
pubmed: 1 5 2020
medline: 10 9 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We observed instances of cannibalism (intraspecific predation) among intra-instar larvae of Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758 while performing a bioassay of Lysinibacillus sphaericus (formerly named Bacillus sphaericus) larvicide, when the larvae were exposed to the larvicide for 48 h in the absence of food. Larvae without symptoms of poisoning attacked and devoured those visibly affected. Cannibalism was more prevalent in 1

Identifiants

pubmed: 32350159
doi: 10.14411/fp.2020.005
doi:
pii:

Substances chimiques

Insecticides 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Auteurs

Igor Uspensky (I)

Department of Biological Chemistry, A. Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Sergei Braun (S)

Department of Biological Chemistry, A. Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

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