Compatability of Metarhizium anisopliae and Pochonia lecanii with insecticides

Among biopesticides, Metarhizium anisopliae, was hazardless with chlorpyriphos and econeem, five were slightly toxic (spinosad, acetamprid, quinalphos, endosulfan & thiodicarb), two as moderately toxic (imidacloprid & triazophos), three were highly toxic (profenophos, indoxacarb &methyldemeton). In case of Pochonia lecanii, only one insecticides rated as hazardless (chlorpyriphos), four insecticides as slightly toxic (econeem, acetamprid, endosulfan & thiodicarb), two insecticides as moderately toxic (spinosad &quinalphos) and five as highly toxic (profenophos, triazophos, imidacloprid, indoxacarb & methyldemeton). Results of the present study suggested that except few insecticides, the rest of the insecticides tested can be safely used along with the entomopathogenic fungi.