Classifying life-style types of phytoseiid mites: Diagnostic traits

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 247-260

  Croft, B A ^a   Blackwood, J S ^a   McMurtry, J A ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Integrated pest management; Pest control; Population dynamics; Tetranychidae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; GENERALIST; MITE; SPECIALIST;

ACARI; ARANEAE; PHYTOSEIIDAE; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EGG LAYING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MITE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MITES; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 16544381411     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:APPA.0000038622.26584.82     Document Type: Review

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