Plant bugs--Miridae, the largest family of the Heteroptera, or true bugs--are globally
important pests of crops such as alfalfa, apple, cocoa, cotton, sorghum, and tea. Some also …

The approximately 10,000 species of mirids, or plant bugs, represent almost a third of all
described heteropterans. Members of this diverse family, which has persisted at least since …

In recent years, the use of predatory mirid bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae) in horticultural crops
has increased considerably. Mirid bugs are zoophytophagous predators, that is, they display …

Over the last 10 years, mirid bugs (Heteroptera: Miridae) have evolved increasingly as an
important group of insect pests in Bt-cotton agro-ecosystems in China. The government, the …

Heteroptera represent an important part of the global insect fauna in many crops, more on
the basis of their numbers than biomass. From 50 to 100 species have been recorded in the …

In recent years, biological control strategies to control many major horticultural pests have
been successfully implemented in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. However, the …

The use of plant-feeding predators for biological pest control has traditionally been
neglected, mainly due to the risk of them feeding on crop plants and causing economically …

The omnivorous predators Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter) and Macrolophus pygmaeus
Rambur (Hemiptera: Miridae) are indigenous natural enemies that commonly inhabit tomato …

The first comprehensive cladistic analysis of Miridae, the plant bugs, is presented based on
analysis of 3935 base pairs of mitochondrial (16S, COI) and nuclear (18S, 28SD3) DNA for …

Sweep-net samples taken at monthly intervals on wild and cultivated host plants at 15
locations in the delta of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, were utilized to study the host …