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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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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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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Comparison of bacterial microbiota of the predatory mite Neoseiulus cucumeris (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and its factitious prey Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Acari: Acaridae) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Neoseiulus cucumeris is a predatory mite used for biological control of arthropod pests. Mass-reared predators are fed with factitious prey mites such as Tyrophagus putrescentiae. Although some information on certain endosymbionts of N.
Apostolos Pekas +5 more
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Comparison of thread-cutting behaviour in three specialist predatory mites to cope with complex webs of Tetranychus spider mites [PDF]
, 2009 Anti-predator defenses provided by complex webs of Tetranychus mites can severely impede the performance of generalist predatory mites, whereas this may not be true for specialist predatory mites.
Amano, H. +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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Chromosome-level genome assembly of Neoseiulus longispinosus (Phytoseiidae) [PDF]
Scientific DataNeoseiulus longispinosus is a predatory mite (Phytoseiidae) widely used in the biological control of agricultural pests, such as Tetranychus mites, Eriophyes mites and Oligonychus mites, in tropical and subtropical regions in China.
Zi-Rui Han +6 more
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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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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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