Phytoseiid mites have been considered the most promising predators for control of pest and small insects. Their use in solanaceous crops biological major mite pests represents an important challenge requires continued research. This study aimed at investigating phytoseiid species their associated phytophagous on eggplant (Solanum melongena), tomato lycopersicum) black nightshade nigrum) Syrian ...

The present paper deals with a total of 26 species mites under 10 families, 17 genera and 3 orders as well insects 5 9 orders, collected from some floricultural leafy ornamental plants in Howrah Purba Medinipur districts West Bengal. It may be mentioned here that these two are the largest producers plants. Among mites, there 14 4 families 8 which belong to phytophagous group, 7 predatory group ...

Predation risk is a strong selective force shaping prey morphology, life history and behavior. Anti-predator behaviors may be innate, learned or both but little is known about the transgenerational behavioral effects of maternally experienced predation risk. We examined intraguild predation (IGP) risk-induced maternal effects on offspring anti-predator behavior, including learning, in the preda...

BACKGROUND Social familiarity, which is based on the ability to recognise familiar conspecific individuals following prior association, may affect all major life activities of group-living animals such as foraging, reproduction and anti-predator behaviours. A scarcely experimentally tested explanation why social familiarity is beneficial for group-living animals is provided by limited attention...

Five phytoseiid mite species: Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot, Neoseiulus californicus（McGregor）, womersleyi（Schicha）, Amblyseius eharai Amitai and Swirski, Euseius sojaensis（Ehara）（Acari: Phytoseiidae）were collected from commercial Japanese pear orchards in Shizuoka Prefecture. To evaluate the suppressive effect of generalist species on spider Tetranychus kanzawai Kishida（Acari: Tetrany...