Costs and benefits of fighting infection in locusts

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• biocontrol agent 15%
• biopesticide 15%
• chemical control 12%
• cost 38%
• crop damage 13%
• defense 25%
• ecology 7%
• effect 6%
• environmental conditions 7%
• evaluation 4%
• fecundity 21%
• fighting 90%
• fitness 9%
• fungal disease 14%
• fungus 8%
• generalist 10%
• grasshopper 25%
• infection 68%
• insect 8%
• locust 100%
• mortality 13%
• pathogen 25%
• pest 10%
• prediction 9%
• product 4%
• program 4%
• side effect 10%
• sublethal effect 12%
• temperature 10%
• world 5%

Agriculture & Biology

• adverse effects 7%
• ambient temperature 6%
• Beauveria bassiana 21%
• behavior modification 13%
• biological control 23%
• biological control agents 8%
• biopesticides 10%
• body temperature 8%
• chemical control 9%
• control methods 8%
• crop damage 12%
• ecology 6%
• entomopathogens 34%
• environmental factors 5%
• fecundity 15%
• fever 9%
• fungal growth 9%
• fungi 5%
• grasshoppers 20%
• heat 5%
• infection 38%
• locusts 85%
• Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum 32%
• pathogens 10%
• pests 6%
• prediction 12%
• sublethal effects 10%
• temperature 7%