Comparative Life Histories and Predation Types: Are Neoseiulus californicus and N. fallacis (Acari: Phytoseiidae) Similar Type II Selective Predators of Spider Mites?

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 531-538

  Croft, B A ^a   Monetti, L N ^a,b   Pratt, P D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Mar del Platta   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alternate foods; Eriophyirlae; Generalist predator; Specialist predator; Thripidae tetranychidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000116619     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.3.531     Document Type: Review

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