Canadian Forest Service Publications
Enhancement of the activity of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus by an optical brightener in the eastern hemlock looper, Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) 2000. Li, S.Y.; Otvos, I.S. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 97: 19-24.
Year: 2000
Issued by: Pacific Forestry Centre
Catalog ID: 18028
Language: English
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Abstract
The pathogenicity of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus originally isolated from Lambdina fiscellaria lugubrosa (Hulst) was compared between treatments with and without the optical brightener Blankophor P167 against L. f. fiscellaria (Guenée) in the laboratory. The brightener significantly enhanced viral activity by 7.5-fold in terms of LD50, and by 22.9-fold in terms of LD95. With the addition of the brightener, the virus killed L.f. fiscellaria larvae 1.5- to 1.8-fold faster than without the brightener.