Evaluation of prey-stage preference as an indicator of life-style type in phytoseiid mites

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 261-280

  Blackwood, J S ^a   Luh, H K ^a   Croft, B A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apple; Diet range; Discriminant analysis; Ecological classification; Predaceous mites

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MITE; OVIPOSITION; PREY PREFERENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ACARI; GALENDROMUS; GALENDROMUS OCCIDENTALIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; METASEIULUS; PHYTOSEIIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; TYPHLODROMUS;

ANIMAL; APPLE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALUS; MITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 16544372682     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:APPA.0000038623.75416.e3     Document Type: Article

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