“…There are no insecticides registered for H. armigera in Brazil (Vivan, Torres, & Fernandes, 2017). However, strategies of biological control have been reported in Brazil as promising options for control of the cotton bollworm, such as: strains of virus HzSNPV (Ardisson-Araújo, Sosa-Gómez, Melo, Báo, & Ribeiro, 2015), Cry toxins and entomopathogenic fungi (Metarhizium anisopliae, Metarhizium rileyi and Nomuraea rileyi) (Costa et al, 2015;Vivan, Torres, & Fernandes, 2017), larval parasitoid (Guerra, Guerra, Ribas, Gonçalves, & Mastrangelo, 2014), and egg parasitoid (Carvalho et al, 2017;Zuim, Rodrigues, Pratissoli, & Torres, 2017).…”