Fanjing Mountain, China, is a World Man and Biosphere Reserve, Natural Heritage Property, Nature Reserve in China. Mites communities have been reported from the Mountain. Wetland moss microhabitats provide unique habitat for mites, our objective to document mites subalpine wetlands of Mountain (Jiulongchi), with particular focus on trends at different stages vegetation succession wetlands, whic...

The social environment early in life is a key determinant of developmental, physiological and behavioural trajectories across vertebrate and invertebrate animals. One crucial variable is the presence/absence of conspecifics. For animals usually reared in groups, social isolation after birth or hatching can be a highly stressful circumstance, with potentially long-lasting consequences. Here, we ...

It has become clear that omnivorous predators can induce plant defences affect the performance and host choice of herbivores. They are also known to production volatiles behaviour herbivores searching for plants. These may other predators, which was investigated here. The predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis preferred plants previously exposed mirid Macrolophus pygmaeus over clean mites were ...

In many group-living animals, within-group associations are determined by familiarity, i.e. familiar individuals, independent of genetic relatedness, preferentially associate with each other. The ultimate causes of this behaviour are poorly understood and rigorous documentation of its adaptive significance is scarce. Limited attention theory states that focusing on a given task has interrelated...

Scolothrips ochoa sp. n. is described from Australia feeding on mites of the genus Raoiella (Tenuipalpidae). Apparently host-specific, this thrips is unusual within the Thripinae in lacking ocellar setae pairs I and II. Moreover, it differs from other Scolothrips species in lacking elongate pronotal midlateral setae, and by having antennal segments III–IV and V– VI broadly joined.

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/srep23571.