Diversity and seasonal abundance of predacious mites in Alabama Satsuma citrus

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 617-628

  Fadamiro, Henry Y ^a   Xiao, Yingfang ^a   Nesbitt, Monte ^b   Childers, Carl C ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Phytoseiidae; Predacious mites; Satsuma mandarin; Stigmaeidae; Typhlodromalus peregrinus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DOMINANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; MITE; ORCHARD; POPULATION DECLINE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPRAY; VEGETATION COVER;

ALABAMA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; AGISTEMUS FLORIDANUS; ANYSTIDAE; ASCIDAE; BDELLIDAE; CHEYLETIDAE; CITRUS; ERYTHRAEIDAE; PANONYCHUS CITRI; PARASITIDAE; PEREGRINUS; PHYLLOCOPTRUTA OLEIVORA; PHYTOSEIIDAE; PROPRIOSEIOPSIS; STIGMAEIDAE; TARSONEMIDAE; TYDEIDAE; TYPHLODROMALUS PEREGRINUS;

EID: 68149132946     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/008.102.0406     Document Type: Article

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