Journal of Entomology and Nematology

Innate immune response in insects is essential to resist the infections of pathogens.The present study investigates the antiviral immune response against intracellular baculovirus infection in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria.The desert locust was injected with nuclear polyhedral virus isolated from Spodoptera littoralis larvae collected from cotton and maize field in Giza governorates (SlNPV).Haemolymph was perfused 24 h post injection.The hemolymph was taken from control and treated locusts to separate haemocytes from the supernatant plasma to characterize the reaction of the adult S. gregaria to the viral infection.Transmission electron microscope revealed that, infected granular plasmtocyte and…