Architects of the integrated control strategy (now known as Integrated Pest Management
[IPM]) for insect pests envisaged a biologically-based system in which chemical control was …

Blue oat mites, Penthaleus spp.(Acari: Penthaleidae), are major agricultural pests in
southern Australia and other parts of the world, attacking various pasture, vegetable and …

In the last 20 years chickpea and faba bean have become major pulse crops in Australia.
They are grown during winter over a latitudinal range which extends from 10–40° S for …

Grain legumes such as chickpea, pigeonpea, cowpea, field pea, lentil, faba bean, black
gram, green gram, grasspea, and Phaseolus beans play an important role in food and …

Integrated pest management programs seek to minimise reliance on pesticides and provide
effective long-term control of pests. Cultural control strategies, such as crop rotations, trap …

The redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor, continues to be an intractable pest causing
damage to most crop and pasture species in southern Australia. H. destructor feed on all …

Earth mites are major winter pests of a variety of crops and pastures in southern Australia.
Competition between four earth mite species was investigated using field and shadehouse …

Damage caused by redlegged earth mite to seedlings of 6 pulse species and its effect on
subsequent plant growth and grain yield were examined under controlled and field …

Twenty two species of grain legumes from four genera that are important or potentially
important to Australian agriculture were examined for their response to feeding by redlegged …

Abstract Halotydeus destructor (Tucker)(Acari: Penthaleidae) is a major pest of pasture
legumes in southern Australia. The mites live on the soil surface and move up to the canopy …