The Mexican rice borer, Eoreuma loftini (Dyar) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is the key pest of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) in Texas; it can attack several grassy crop and noncrop host plants and has spread into Louisiana. Through small-plot, commercial field, and pheromone trap experiments, this study demonstrates that the pest uses corn, Zea mays L., more than sugarcane and sorghum, Sorghum bicolo...

Abstract Background Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) attack a wide range of insects. They are considered environmental friendly alternatives to synthetic insecticides for pest control. In the present study, virulence native isolate EPF, Beauveria bassiana Vuillemin (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae) was evaluated against least mulberry pyralid, Glyphodes pyloalis Walker (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), throug...