16^th International Virology Summit

Insect viruses

Insect viruses are major pathogens of numerous arthropod classifications. They have been set down from a wide scope of insects (Miller and Ball, 1998), and their union with these hosts is long, may be for more than 200 million years. While, there are more than 1100 detail viruses that    over 20 dissimilar household of insects, the huge number report to date, over 600, are from the brood Baculoviridae even so it has been suggested many thousands more may last to be spot from the Lepidoptera alone (Federici, 1997).