TY - JFULL AU - Fatima Zohra Bissaad and Farid Bounaceur and Nassima Behidj and Nadjiba Chebouti and Fatma Halouane and Bahia Doumandji-Mitiche PY - 2014/12/ TI - Effect of Two Entomopathogenic Fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum on the Haemolymph of the Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria T2 - International Journal of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering SP - 1297 EP - 1301 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10004672 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 95, 2014 N2 - Effect of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum on the 5th instar nymphs of Schistocerca gregaria was studied in the laboratory. Infection by these both entomopathogenic fungi caused reduction in the hemolymph total protein. The average amounts of total proteins were 2.3, 2.07, 2.09 µg/100 ml of haemolymph in the control and M. anisopliae var. acridum, and B. bassiana based-treatments, respectively. Three types of haemocytes were recognized and identified as prohaemocytes, plasmatocytes and granulocytes. The treatment caused significant reduction in the total haemocyte count and in each haemocyte type on the 9th day after its application. ER -