Plants with spider-mite prey attract more predatory mites than clean plants under greenhouse conditions

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-198

  Janssen, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cucumber; Olfactory searching; Phytoseiidae; Synomones; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MITE; OLFACTORY CUE; PREDATOR; PREY LOCATION;

ACARI; ARANEAE; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; PHYTOSEIIDAE; PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; URTICAE;

EID: 0032911009     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1999.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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