Two spotted spider mite (TSSM), Tetranychus urticae Koch, is an important pests on bean in Markazi Province (center of Iran). To evaluate the bioacaricidal activity of extracts of three essential oils of thyme (Thymus vulgaris), lavender (Lavandula officinalis)  and eucalyptus (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) against T. urticae on cherry bean (Vigna unguiculta subsp. sinensis), five different concent...

We examined induction of preference and performance on novel host plants for two laboratory populations of the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae, with one population adapted to bean and the other population adapted to tomato. We bred four isofemale lines of the bean population only and used them in all the assays. The bean population had a 30% lower fecundity on tomato than on bean, w...

lations sometimes develop. Such variations are apparently the result of predators and parasites, climatic differences, varying tree conditions such as tree vigor and the plant growth cycle, all o€ which affect the feeding mites. The effects of temperature and humidity were the only considerations in the study reported here. Climatological conditions were found to vary from grove to grove and fr...

With the public perception that synthetic pesticides leave harmful residues in crop produce for human consumption, there has been increased interest in using natural products for pest control. The potential of using fruit extracts of hot pepper for controlling the cabbage looper, Trichopulsia ni (Hübner) and spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch is explored in this investigation. Crude extracts...

during 1995-1997, a faunistic survey was carried out on spider mites and their predacious mites in urmieh region, iran. a total of 15 species belonging to 7 families and 13 genera were collected and identified, of which one genus and species is a new record for iran (marked by two asterisks), and 6 species are new records for west azerbaijan province (marked one asterisks).

biological reactions of the two-spotted spider mite (tss), tetranychus urticae, were studied on nine cultivars of tomatoes. the spider mites were reared on leaf discs, taken from fruiting stages of the host plants. the effects of feeding on some tomato cultivars, namely: long shelf life, meran (greenhouse cultivars), redclude, western red, imperial, yazd, mazandaran, west azarbaijan and khorasa...

The phytophagous spider mites Tetranychus kanzawai and urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae) can be as small < 0.5 mm; thus, they are often incidentally consumed along with food plant leaves by voracious lepidopteran larvae (hereafter, ‘caterpillars’; Shirotsuka Yano, 2012). Therefore, the ability to avoid such intraguild predation should confer a selective advantage mites. We experimentally demons...

only The generalist predator Typhlodromalus limonicus (Acari: Phytoseiidae): a potential biological control agent of thrips and whiteflies Yvonne M. van Houten, Julietta Rothe & Karel J.F. Bolckmans ................ 237-240 Abstract: A strain of the phytoseiid predatory mite Typhlodromalus limonicus Garman & McGregor, collected from tomatoes, was tested in a laboratory study as a biological con...

The present study deals with the side effect of four entomopathogenic fungi EPF, Metarhizium anisoplia (Metchnikoff), Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo), Paceliomyces fumosoroseus(Vassiljevsky) and Cladosporium cladosporiodes (Fresen), which used mainly against insect pests spider mites, on phytoseiid predatory mite, Cydnoseius negevi(Swirski Amitai) in laboratory.  Spore suspensions LC50 (1x106=106 ...