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Commercial Availability of Predatory Mites
EDIS, 2005 Predatory mites such as Neoseiulus californicus McGregor (Fig. 1) and Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot (Fig. 2) feed on important fruits and ornamental pests such as the twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch), broad mite ...
Silvia I. Rondon +4 more
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Minimal Pruning and Reduced Plant Protection Promote Predatory Mites in Grapevine [PDF]
Insects, 2017 Improving natural pest control by promoting high densities of predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) is an effective way to prevent damage by pest mites (e.g., Eriophyidae, Tetranychidae) and other arthropod taxa that can cause serious damage to vineyards.
Theresa Pennington +4 more
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Herbicides Harm Key Orchard Predatory Mites. [PDF]
Insects, 2023 The phytoseiid mites Galendromus occidentalis and Amblydromella caudiglans are critical for conservation biological control of pest mites in Washington State, U.S.A. apples. While the non-target effects of insecticides on phytoseiids are well described, research on herbicide effects is limited.
Bergeron P, Schmidt-Jeffris R.
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Detecting two-spotted spider mites and predatory mites in strawberry using deep learning
Smart Agricultural Technology, 2023 Strawberries are an important and high-value crop in the United States. The total value of strawberry production in the United States was $3.42 billion in 2021.
Congliang Zhou +7 more
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Unexpected Effects of Local Management and Landscape Composition on Predatory Mites and Their Food Resources in Vineyards [PDF]
Insects, 2021 Viticultural practices and landscape composition are the main drivers influencing biological pest control in vineyards. Predatory mites, mainly phytoseiid (Phytoseiidae) and tydeoid mites (Tydeidae), are important to control phytophagous mites ...
Stefan Möth +5 more
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Constitutive and Operational Variation of Learning in Foraging Predatory Mites. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Learning is widely documented across animal taxa but studies stringently scrutinizing the causes of constitutive or operational variation of learning among populations and individuals are scarce. The ability to learn is genetically determined and subject to constitutive variation while the performance in learning depends on the immediate circumstances ...
Seiter M, Schausberger P.
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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2018 Thrips is one of the most harmful insect groups attacking many field and vegetable crops. Predatory mites, especially those in family Phytoseiidae, are considered as good bioagents to control thrips where application of chemical pesticides can be ...
Nevin Ahmed
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Role of Predatory Mites in Persistent Nonoccupational Allergic Rhinitis. [PDF]
Can Respir J, 2016 Mites can sensitize and induce atopic disease in predisposed individuals and are an important deteriorating factor in patients with allergic rhinitis, asthma, and atopic dermatitis. Although Pyroglyphidae mites have been extensively studied, very scarce reports are available on Cheyletidae spp. especially regarding human respiratory pathology. The main
Poza Guedes P +4 more
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Cannibalism, predation rate, and intrigued predation of two predatory mites, Protogamasellopsis rhizoglyphusi (Rhodacaridae) and Gaeolaelaps aculeifer (Laelapidae) [PDF]
نامه انجمن حشرهشناسی ایران, 2023 The The effects of individual predatory include predatory capacity, cannibalism, starvation, and different interactions of predatory on each other which causes effects on the population of the prey and the population of the predatory.
Mohammad Reza Amin, Mohammad Khanjani
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Nanomaterials, 2022 RNA interference (RNAi) is one of the most widely used techniques to study gene functions. There is still a lack of RNAi techniques that can be applied in Phytoseiidae conveniently and efficiently. Star Polycation is a new nanomaterial commonly used as a
Zhenhui Wang +6 more
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