Pest insects cause severe damage to global crop production and pose a threat to human
health by transmitting diseases. Traditionally, chemical pesticides (insecticides) have been …

Costs associated with subterranean termite damage and control are estimated to approach
$2 billion annually in the United States alone. The Formosan subterranean termite …

The use of pathogens as biological control agents has long been considered a promising
technology for termite control. Over the past five decades, there has been a large …

Many parasites evolve to become virulent rather than benign mutualists. One of the major
theoretical models of parasite virulence postulates that this is because rapid within‐host …

The behavioural response of an insect to a fungal pathogen will have a direct effect on the
efficacy of the fungus as a biological control agent. In this paper we describe two processes …

Termites are major pests of timber and timber products which live in warm, humid
environments that are conducive to the development and spread of entomopathogenic fungi …

Associations between termites and fungi are considered in two categories: firstly,
interactions that affect the discovery and consumption of food or its nutrient value, but which …

Reticulitermes flavipes workers were topically inoculated with≈ 10,000 conidia of the
entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae. After being kept in groups of 20 …

Fungal entomopathogens are ubiquitous within the environment and susceptible insects are
predicted to be under strong selection pressure to detect and avoid virulent isolates …

Termites adjust their response to entomopathogenic fungi according to the profile of fungal
volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This study demonstrates the pathogenicity of …