Combining plant- and soil-dwelling predatory mites to optimise biological control of thrips

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 239-261

  Wiethoff, Jürgen ^a   Poehling, Hans Michael ^a   Meyhöfer, Rainer ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative preys; Amblyseius cucumeris; Biological control; Frankliniella occidentalis; Hypoaspis aculeifer; Natural enemy combination; Predatory mites

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; SOIL; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LARVA; MITES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4043124806     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:APPA.0000049137.26697.b9     Document Type: Article

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