Larch forests in the permafrost zone of Eastern Eurasia are exposed to frequent wildfires, which expected increase with climate warming. However, little is known about how fire-derived charcoal linked decomposition process these forests. Fire-derived can affect faunal communities forest litter. In a two-year field litterbag experiment, we investigated effect on colonisation by microarthropods (...

The prey preference of polyphagous predators plays an important role in suppressing different species of pest insects. In this study the prey preference of the predatory mite, Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) was examined between nymphs of the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) and first instar larvae of the western flower thrips, F...

Oryctes agamemnon arabicus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is one of the main pests on date palm trees in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Two mite species were found associated with this beetle: Sancassania sp. (Acari: Astigmata: Acaridae) and Hypoaspis rhinocerotis Oudemans (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae). Sancassania deutonymphs (hypopi) were phoretic on O. a. arabicus adults and larvae. However...

(Sceloporus occidentalis) on the central coast of California. Southwest. Nat. 56:369–377. Majláthová, v., I. Majláth, M. DerDáková, B. vIchová, anD B. Pet’ko. 2006. Borrelia lusitaniae and green lizards (Lacerta viridis), Karst region, Slovakia. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 12:1895–1901. manWeiler, s. a., r. s. lane, W. m. Block, and m. l. morrison. 1990. Survey of birds and lizards (Acari) and spiroche...

during 1999-2002, in the course of a faunistic survey of oribatid mites of iran, twelve species of higher or brachypyline oribatid mites (brachypylina) belonging to eleven gen-era and seven families from various localities of iran were collected: aleurodamaeus* se-tosus (aleurodamaeidae*); licnobelba* alestensis (licnobelbidae*); licnodamaeus fissu-ratus, l. pulcherrimus (licnodamaeidae); damae...

A new species of eriophyid mites, Aceria bassicola sp. n. (Acari: Acariformes: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae), collected from Bassia prostrata (L.) Beck (Amaranthaceae), is described Hungary based on females, males and nymphs.