Hello Mohammed:

 Yes, I worked with  Trichoderma lignorum and Trichoderma viride in Colombia  to control the leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes.  These ants use the material they cut to cultivate a fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophrous from which they fed. Baits prepared with spores of the fungus Trichoderma, antagonist of the symbiont fungus of A. cephalotes were applied to control A. cephalotes colonies. Trichoderma kills the symbiont fungus of the leaf cutting ant and the ants die by starvation.

Regards,

Luis Miguel

Thank you Luis for this information but i think this is indirect effect i am asking about direct of  Trichoderma spp on insects .Best Regard

Hello , Doctor their  are tow thesis in the department , you know them deal with using Trichoderma against insects

Hello Dr. I used Biocont -t W.P  direct on some insects but  result was a negative 

Trichoderma is an antagonist fungus.  Is not entomopathogenic. Can be characterized as opportunistic avirulent plant symbionts. This refers to the ability of several Trichoderma species to form mutualistic endophytic relationships with several plant species.Several strains of Trichoderma have been developed as biocontrol agents against fungal diseases of plants but not for insects.

I have been used to Control seasonal insect affected disease in crops by Trichoderma  harzianum liquid bio formulation 

hi mahesh 

If the Trichoderma occurs effect  on insect , what is the mode of action ?

Thank muslem do you have published data

Dear Prof. Mohammed,

Please check the links below.

Best regards

SM Najim

http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/abs/10.1094/PHYTO-96-0190

http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1422553138_Kumar%20et%20al.pdf

http://www.irjabs.com/files_site/paperlist/r_311_121109231522.pdf

http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-javs/papers/vol9-issue1/Version-2/A09120106.pdf

http://scholarsresearchlibrary.com/ABR-vol4-iss3/ABR-2013-4-3-173-179.pdf

http://www.bentham-open.com/contents/pdf/TOMYCJ/TOMYCJ-8-71.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287212016_Entomopathogenic_potential_of_Trichoderma_longibrachiatum_and_its_comparative_evaluation_with_malathion_against_the_insect_pest_Leucinodes_orbonalis

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287212016_Entomopathogenic_potential_of_Trichoderma_longibrachiatum_and_its_comparative_evaluation_with_malathion_against_the_insect_pest_Leucinodes_orbonalis

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285828346_Effect_of_Aspergillus_flavus_and_Trichoderma_harzianum_on_survival_of_Coptotermes_formosanus_Isoptera_Rhinotermitidae

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223012634_Proteolytic_activity_and_antibiotic_production_by_Trichoderma_harzianum_in_relation_to_pathogenicity_to_insects?ev=srch_pub

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plz i need paper about effect of trichoderma sp. on insects , thanks

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