and is acting as buffered medium against extreme biotic and abiotic influences (Keller and Zimmerman,1989).
These soils inhabiting entomopathogenic fungi play a key role inregulating populations of soil dwelling insect pests (Jacson et al., 2000).
This result indicated that addition of CTAB to media was a vital factor for the recover of the two entomopathogenic species. L. lecanii and M.anisopliae have been recorded for the first time from Iraqi soil.