Abstract Background The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Trombidiformes: Tetranychidae), is one of the most damaging mites in agriculture. Due to concern for intensive use synthetic acaricides, entomopathogenic fungi represents a feasible alternative T. management. In present study, 7 isolates Metarhizium were characterized physiological and molecularly (based on ITS1-5.8s-ITS...

In Spain, water use in agriculture is expected to become limited by resources the future. It pertinent study effect of decreased irrigation on presence pests, plant damage, and arthropod communities a super-intensive olive orchard examined from 2017 2019. Arthropods were studied with visual vacuum sampling methods two treatments (T1—control T2—Regulated Deficit Irrigation (RDI)). Univariate ana...