Environmental factors like temperature have a great impact on the predation potential of
biological control agents. In the present study, the functional response of the predatory mite …

To understand the effect of fluctuating temperature on the population characteristics of
Tetranychus pacificus, we determined their life tables under constant temperatures between …

Increasing energy costs force glasshouse growers to switch to energy saving strategies. In
the temperature integration approach, considerable daily temperature variations are …

Biological control of spider mites using phytoseiid mites is frequently being disrupted by high
temperatures, which results in an important and urgent research topic. We hypothesized that …

BACKGROUND In fluctuating climatic environments, heat acclimation in predatory mites is a
superior adaptation strategy for effective agricultural pest management and can be used to …

Neoseiulus bicaudus (Wainstein), a species of Neoseiulus Hughes (Acari: Phytoseiidae),
was collected at Ili in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China in July 2013. As …

In our previous study, we reported a high temperature adapted strain (HTAS) of the
predatory mite Neoseiulus barkeri was artificially selected via a long-term heat acclimation …

The immature development and reproduction of the predatory mites Amblyseius largoensis
(Muma), Proprioseiopsis lenis (Corpuz and Rimando), and Amblyseius swirskii Athias …

Phytoseiid mites frequently experience stress under changing or fluctuating environments
especially in hot and dry agroecosystems. The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) …

Predatory mites are important biological control agents for phytophagous mites and several
small insect pests on vegetables, while the control efficiency is often limited by the …