Common names: white muscardine disease, icing sugar fungus.
Extract from Wikipedia article: Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the entomopathogenic fungi. It is being used as a biological insecticide to control a number of pests such as termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids and different beetles. Its use in the control of bedbugs and malaria-transmitting mosquitos is under investigation.
Icing sugar fungus Beauveria bassiana (anamorph of Cordyceps bassiana) on a paper wasp on a property at 5369 Farm to Market Road 770 near Kountze. Texas, June 8, 2019 5303 Farm to Market Rd 770, Kountze, TX 77625, USA
Close up of a entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (white muscardine disease) on a paper wasp on a property at 5369 Farm to Market Road 770 near Kountze. Texas, June 8, 2019 5303 Farm to Market Rd 770, Kountze, TX 77625, USA
Entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (anamorph of Cordyceps bassiana) on a paper wasp collected during a mushroom walk on a property at 5369 Farm to Market Road 770 near Kountze. Texas, June 8, 2019 5369 Farm to Market Rd 770, Kountze, TX 77625, USA
Entomopathogenic fungus (white mold) Beauveria bassiana (Icing Sugar Fungus, White muscardine disease) on a dead cicada under large trees in muddy area on Winters Bayou Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Cleveland, Texas, September 18, 2021 Lone Star Hiking Trail, Cleveland, TX 77328, USA
Close-up of entomopathogenic fungus (white mold) Beauveria bassiana (Icing Sugar Fungus, White muscardine disease) on a dead cicada under large trees in muddy area on Winters Bayou Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Cleveland, Texas, September 18, 2021 Lone Star Hiking Trail, Cleveland, TX 77328, USA
Side view of a cicada with entomopathogenic fungus (white mold) Beauveria bassiana (Icing Sugar Fungus, White muscardine disease) on Winters Bayou Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Cleveland, Texas, September 18, 2021 Lone Star Hiking Trail, Cleveland, TX 77328, USA
Underside of a cicada with entomopathogenic fungus (white mold) Beauveria bassiana (Icing Sugar Fungus, White muscardine disease) on Winters Bayou Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Cleveland, Texas, September 18, 2021 Lone Star Hiking Trail, Cleveland, TX 77328, USA