A review on the factors affecting mite growth in stored grain commodities

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 191-208

  Collins, D A ^a  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acarus spp.; Lepidoglyphus spp; Stored grain commodities; Stored product mites; Tyrophagus spp.

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIGHT EFFECT; LITERATURE REVIEW; MITE; MOISTURE CONTENT; PARASITE INFESTATION; PEST CONTROL; PEST SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

ACARIDAE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLIMATE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIDITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE;

ACARICIDES; ACARIDAE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLIMATE; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

ACARI; ACARUS; LEPIDOGLYPHUS; TYROPHAGUS;

EID: 84856601795     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9512-6     Document Type: Review

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