How to control biological pests using Metarhizium Anisopliae Metarhizium anisopliae is a fungus that grows naturally in the soil and causes various pests. Metarhizium anisopliae is used as a bio-fungicide pesticide to combat various pests and is being studied to control mosquitoes that spread malaria. When the spores of this fungus come in contact with the skin of the target insect, they germinate and grow directly through the spiral cuticle into the inner body of the host.
Metarhizium Anisopliae Metarhizium anisopliae exhibits significant metabolic and environmental versatility and is found in rhizosphere colonies and adheres to plant root surfaces and can significantly affect these environmental nodes by removing and killing soil pests. Metarhizium anisopliae is considered safe with minimal risk to vertebrates, humans and the environment. Metarhizium anisopliae - formerly known as M. anisopliae, and formerly known as Entomophthora anisopliae (basionym) - is a fungus that grows naturally in soils around the world and acts as a parasite to cause disease in various insects. Ilya I. Mechnikov is the name of the insect from which it was originally identified - the beetle Anisoplia austriaca. It is an asexual reproduced mitosporic fungus, previously classified in the category Hypomyocytes of the Deuteromycota film.