This study was carried out to determine mite species on blackberry plants (Rubus spp. (Rosaceae)) in Florida and Georgia, USA, differences between organic conventional plantings the area sampled. Surveys were conducted commercial from June October 2016. Leaf samples collected monthly nine different cultivars including ‘Arapaho’, ‘Choctaw’, ‘Freedom’, ‘Kiowa’, ‘Natchez’, ‘Navaho’, ‘Osage’, ‘Ouac...

The old world date mite, Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor) (Acari: Tetranychidae) is a severe spider mite pest of date palm in most of the Middle East and North Africa. Considering that nothing is known about the performance of phytoseiid predators against O. afrasiaticus, biology, predation, and life table parameters of Cydnoseius negevi (Swirski and Amitai) and Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes (Ac...

Conservation biological control of pests may be achieved using a variety integrated strategies based on crop diversification. We investigated whether the insertion intercropped plants species (IPS) Inga edulis, Senna macranthera, and Varronia curassavica modified abundance mites, their feeding behavior, dissimilarity predator herbivore mites over gradient distance from IPS coffee. To accomplish...

Establishment and maintenance of the natural enemy are critical for successful biological control pests on plants without alternative food predators. Great efforts have been devoted to exploring suitable supplementary In this study, we evaluated feasibility using Tyrophagus curvipenis (Fain Fauvel) (Acari: Acaridae) as a source Neoseiulus cucumeris (Oudemans) Phytoseiidae) by investigating surv...

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 decreased. This work was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of the two phytoseiid mites, Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) and Neoseiulus cucumeris...

The impact of daily temperature variations on arthropod life history remains woefully understudied compared to the large body of research that has been carried out on the effects of constant temperatures. However, diurnal varying temperature regimes more commonly represent the environment in which most organisms thrive. Such varying temperature regimes have been demonstrated to substantially af...