Foo Kevin, Sathiya Seelan Jaya Seelan, Dawood Mahadimenakbar M
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88450 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Insects. 2017 Jul 4;8(3):66. doi: 10.3390/insects8030066.
Overlooking the importance of insect disease can have disastrous effects on insect conservation. This study reported the microfungi that infect eggs and larvae during ex-situ rearing project. Two different species of microfungi that infected the firefly's immature life stages were isolated and identified. infected the firefly's eggs while infected the firefly during the larval stage. Both microfungi species caused absolute mortality once infection was observed; out of 244 individual eggs collected, 75 eggs (32.5%) were infected by . All 13 larvae that hatched from the uninfected eggs were infected by . This study was the first to document the infection of 's eggs and larvae by and .
忽视昆虫疾病的重要性可能会对昆虫保护产生灾难性影响。本研究报告了在异地饲养项目中感染卵和幼虫的微真菌。分离并鉴定了两种感染萤火虫未成熟生命阶段的不同微真菌物种。[一种微真菌]感染萤火虫的卵，而[另一种微真菌]在幼虫阶段感染萤火虫。一旦观察到感染，这两种微真菌都会导致绝对死亡；在收集的244个单个卵中，75个卵（32.5%）被[一种微真菌]感染。从未感染卵孵化出的所有13只幼虫都被[另一种微真菌]感染。本研究首次记录了[一种微真菌]和[另一种微真菌]对[萤火虫物种名称]的卵和幼虫的感染。
