Polyandry is more widespread than anticipated from Bateman's principle but its ultimate (evolutionary) causes and proximate (mechanistic) correlates are more difficult to pinpoint than those of polygyny. Here, we combined mating experiments, quantification of reproductive traits and microsatellite genotyping to determine the fitness implications of polyandry in two predatory mite species, where...

This study was conducted to identify predatory mite species on pepper, tomato, bean, cucumber, pumpkin, watermelon, melon, and eggplant plant leaves between 2018 2019 Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Muş provinces. 1063 samples were collected 676 of these which observed with species. Predatory identified belonging the Phytoseiidae family, constitues 10.65% samples. The mites listed as Neoseiulus barkeri Hug...

A blend of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from plants induced by herbivory enables the priming of defensive responses in neighboring plants. These effects may provide insights useful for pest control achieved with transgenic-plant-emitted volatiles. We therefore investigated, under both laboratory and greenhouse conditions, the priming of defense responses in plants (lima bean and co...

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 and is subject to operational variation. We...

Animals are commonly exposed to multiple environmental stimuli, but whether, and under which circumstances, they can attend to multiple stimuli in multitask learning challenges is elusive. Here, we assessed whether simultaneously occurring chemosensory stimuli interfere with each other in a dual-task learning challenge. We exposed predatory mites Neoseiulus californicus early in life to either ...

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...

The present paper reports 28 species of mites under 3 orders, 14 families and 23 genera 6 insects belonging to orders collected from some edible wild mushrooms Mini Sundarbans adjoining areas Taki-Hasnabad (Dist-North 24 Parganas). This includes both damage causing predatory insects. There are not earlier known occur on in India. All the listed giving collection localities including GPS data na...