Initial screening of little known predatory mites in Brazil as potential pest control agents

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 115-125

  De Vis, R M J ^a,b   De Moraes, G J ^a   Bellini, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Proefstation Voor de Groenteteelt ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological control; Pest management; Phytoseiidae; Stigmaeidae; Tydeidae

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; LABORATORY METHOD; MITE; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PREDATOR; SURVIVORSHIP; VEGETATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BRAZIL; EGG LAYING; HEVEA; MITE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; HEVEA; MITES; OVIPOSITION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ACARI; AGISTEMUS FLORIDANUS; AMBLYSEIUS; BREVIPALPUS PHOENICIS; CALACARUS HEVEAE; EUSEIUS; FRANKLINIELLA; IPHISEIODES ZULUAGAI; METASEIULUS; OLIGONYCHUS GOSSYPII; PHYTOSEIIDAE; PRONEMATUS; STIGMAEIDAE; TENUIPALPIDAE; TENUIPALPUS; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; TYDEIDAE; ZETZELLIA;

EID: 33745685999     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-006-9004-7     Document Type: Article

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