Abstract
Control of the sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is conducted in more than three million hectares do to endoparasitoid Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) releases. The major problem in the system of mass production of C. flavipes is the reduction in the rearing of D. saccharalis by the pathogen Nosema sp. (Microsporida: Nosematidae). Recently, we show…