Encapsulation materials and methods applied to biological insect control

Abstract: There is still little systematic research on formulation materials and methods. Here wewill present materials, methods and applications for encapsulation of bioinsectides. The firstresults of a recently granted project on mass-production and encapsulation of an endophyticBeauveria bassiana isolate for rape plant protection will be shown.Furthermore encapsulation of artificial CO2 sources for attract and kill capsules resulted inbeads which released CO2 under semi field conditions for 15 days and attracted western cornrootworm larvae.