Impact of two eriophyoid fig mites, aceria ficus and rhyncaphytoptus ficifoliae, as prey on postembryonic development and oviposition rate of the predacious mite amblyseius swirskii

Acarologia

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 367-371

  Abou Awad, Badawi A ^a   El Sawaf, Bahira M ^b   Abdel Khalek, Amira A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Acari; Amblyseius swirskii; Biology; Predacious mites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038931241     PISSN: 0044586X     EISSN: 21077207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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