Susceptibility of the Western Honey Bee Apis mellifera and the African Stingless Bee Meliponula ferruginea (Hymenoptera: Apidae) to the Entomopathogenic Fungi Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana (Project: Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management)
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Name of principal investigator | Thomas Dubois |
Email of principle investigator | Thomas Dubois |
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Donor/funding agency | German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |
Start date of project | 2019-11-01 |
End date of project | 2021-02-28 |
Region | East Africa |
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Administrative area(s) | ICIPE Duduville |
Name of contact person | Evanson R. Omuse |
Email of contact person | eomuse@icipe.org |
Date uploaded | 2023-08-03 |
Maintainer | Kennedy Senagi |
Email of maintainer | ksenagi@icipe.org |
Citation narrative | Omuse, E. R., Niassy, S., Wagacha, J. M., Ong’amo, G. O., Lattorff, H. M. G., Kiatoko, N., ... & Dubois, T. (2022). Susceptibility of the western honey bee Apis mellifera and the African stingless bee Meliponula ferruginea (Hymenoptera: Apidae) to the entomopathogenic fungi Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana. Journal of Economic Entomology, 115(1), 46-55. |
Is this third party data? | No - This is not third party data, and I consent to archive it |
Acknowledgement statement | We appreciate the assistance of Joseph W. Kilonzo, James N. Kimani, and Gilvian N. Onsomu for providing and taking care of the A. mellifera and M. ferruginea colonies for this research. This work received financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) commissioned and administered through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); Fund for International Agricultural Research (FIA), grant number 17.7860.4-001; Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the Section for Research, Innovation, and Higher Education grant number RAF-3058 KEN-18/0005; UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; and the Government of the Republic of Kenya. |