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| − | <h1>'''Beauveria Bassiana : '''</h1>
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| − | Entomopathogenic fungi are natural biopesticides acting through contact. '''''Beauveria Bassiana''''' is capable of infecting a broad range of insect hosts like bed bugs.
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| − | Our goal is fighting bed bugs worldwide invasive pests, that are invading homes and biting humans for their blood.
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| − | '''''Beauveria bassiana''''' was first used as a way of fight against insects in agriculture in Canada, and later on, all over the world.
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| − | The fungus can easily penetrate bed bug's exoskeleton: the cuticle. Once inside the insect's hemolymph, the fungus feeds and multiplies, causing its death [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22555012].
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| − | In the wolrd, entomopathogenic fungi are common and widespread in almost all classes of insects. Only a few of fungi are currently being developed as pathogens against inset pests. Indeed, entomopathogenic fungi are effective against eggs, larvae, intermediate stages and adults.
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| − | '''''Beauveria bassiana''''' is a white muscardine fungus, originally known as ''Tritirachium shiotae'', grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a pathogen on various insect species causing white muscardine disease [http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-javs/papers/vol9-issue7/Version-1/K0907015965.pdf].
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| − | So, our goal is to use this fungus to fight bed bugs. Indeed, the fungus can '''easily penetrate bed bug's cuticle''' like we said before.
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| − | Once inside the insect's hemolymph, the fungus feeds and multiplies, causing its death.
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| − | Our objective is to '''enhance the fungus''' so that it is highly virulent for bed bugs. We want to '''reduce the lethal doses and break the bugs'''.
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| − | Furthermore, the excessive use of insecticides thickened the bed bug's cuticle. As a result, pest control companies are obliged to increase the insecticides doses.
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| − | <h1>'''Reference : '''</h1>
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| − | 1. {{Barbarin A.M., N.E. Jenkins, E.G. Rajotte, et M.B. Thomas, « A preliminary evaluation of the potential of Beauveria bassiana for bed bug control », Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, septembre 2012, vol. 111, no 1, p. 82‑85.}}
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| − | 2. {{Rai D., V. Updhyay, P. Mehra, M. Rana, et A.K. Pandey, « POTENTIAL OF ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI AS BIOPESTICIDES », 2014, p. 7.}}
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