Bioinsecticide beauveria bassiana for bed bugs

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Have you used bio insecticide beauveria bassiana for bed bugs? Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows in the soil around the world. It belongs to insect pathogen fungi. It is used as a biopesticide to control many pests, especially bed bugs, termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and different beetles.

Beauveria Bassiana Culture The colony of most Beauveria bassiana is velvety and gradually changed from white to milky white in the gelatin medium, while the bottom of the potato agar culture is colorless or light yellow. The culture of beauveria bassiana can be industrialized, The microbial products on the market are usually using their spores, leads to the milky white to pale yellow powder. Beauveria bassiana needs proper temperature and humidity (24-28 °C, the relative humidity of about 90%, and soil moisture content of more than 5%) to make the pests pathogenic.

Beauveria Bassiana Life Cycle Beauveria bassiana products are a kind of entomogenous fungus of the Ascomycetes. It usually sires by asexual, which makes Reproductionconidia( beauveria bassiana spores). The distribution of Beauveria bassiana is very wide. It has been found in the mountains from a few meters to more than 2,000 meters above sea level. It can invade 6 species, 15 families, 200 species of insects, bed bugs and mites. One beauveria bassiana’s mode of action is producing Beauverin (Nonribosomal Polypeptide Toxoid), Oomycin (Benzoquinone Toxoid), and Calcium Oxalate Crystals, which can cause insect poisoning, disrupt metabolism and kill them. Another beauveria bassiana’s mode of action is that spores can penetrate the body wall of the insect, multiplies in the insect body, absorbs nutrition and moisture in the insect body, and then kills the target pest by destroying the structure of pest. The affected pests will turn to white all the body. Like metarhizium anisopliae, trichoderma and bacillus subtilis, the beauveria bassiana is harnless to human, animals, no pollution on crops. However, the beauveria bassiana should be kept away from the silkworm. It has continuous infectivity to pests, and the pests can be continuously infected.

Beauveria Bassiana Advantages No pesticides: Today agricultural products are frequently rejected because of excessive pesticide residues. Even if the product is harvested immediately


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