The polyphagous insect pest Spodoptera litura is known to cause huge losses to agriculture all over the world. Its increasing resistance to chemical insecticides necessitates the use of biological options such as Entomopathogenic fungi. Strains of Entomopathogenic fungi, Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae and Lecanicillium lecanii are known to control the incidence of the pest. | Virulence of local isolates of entomopathogenic fungi on the common agricultural pest spodopteralitura (Fabricius) lepidoptera: Noctuidae
