Phytoseiid mites on unsprayed apple trees in Oregon, and other Western States (USA): Distributions, life-style types and relevance to commercial orchards

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 281-326

  Croft, B A ^a   Luh, H K ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eriophyidae; Life histories; Mite ecology; Phytoseiidae; Population dynamics; Stigmaeidae; Tetranychidae

Indexed keywords

GENERALIST; MITE; ORCHARD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIALIST;

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

ACARI; ACULUS SCHLECHTENDALI; ARANEAE; BRYOBIA; EOTETRANYCHUS; ERIOPHYIDAE; GALENDROMUS; GALENDROMUS OCCIDENTALIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; METASEIULUS; PANONYCHUS ULMI; PHYTOSEIIDAE; STIGMAEIDAE; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; TYPHLODROMUS; ZETZELLIA MALI;

ANIMAL; APPLE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFESTATION; MITE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PLANT LEAF; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALUS; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OREGON; PLANT LEAVES; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 16544385066     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:APPA.0000038624.56941.8f     Document Type: Article

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