Muscardine

A muscardine is an attack of a Insecte by a Champignon parasite.

This disease owes its name with the fact that the cocoons reached are covered with a cottony sleeping bag and a beautiful white which resembles known sugar refineries, called dragees (muscardin = dragee in Languedocien and Provençal).

• Aspergillus flavus can infect colonies of Termite S ( Reticulitermes virginicus )

• Beauveria bassiana causes a white muscardine Silkworm (badly of segno) while Beauveria effusa causes a red of it.
• Empusa muscae on the Mouche domesticates ( Musca domestica )
• Metarhizium anisopliae is used within the framework of the biological Lutte to fight against the migrating Criquet or the Tsetse fly.
• Penicillium causes a muscardine green color on the Hanneton of the corn ( Anisoplia austriaca )