Abd – Elrahman,, S., Ibrahiem, A. (2007). INFLUECNE OF THE PREY TYPE ON THE BIOLOGY AND LIFE TABLE PARAMETERS OF THE PREDATORY MITE Phytoseiulus macropilis (BANKS) (ACARI: PHYTOSEIIDAE).. Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 32(2), 1435-1441. doi: 10.21608/jppp.2007.219421
Sohier I. Abd – Elrahman,; Abla A. Ibrahiem. "INFLUECNE OF THE PREY TYPE ON THE BIOLOGY AND LIFE TABLE PARAMETERS OF THE PREDATORY MITE Phytoseiulus macropilis (BANKS) (ACARI: PHYTOSEIIDAE).". Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 32, 2, 2007, 1435-1441. doi: 10.21608/jppp.2007.219421
Abd – Elrahman,, S., Ibrahiem, A. (2007). 'INFLUECNE OF THE PREY TYPE ON THE BIOLOGY AND LIFE TABLE PARAMETERS OF THE PREDATORY MITE Phytoseiulus macropilis (BANKS) (ACARI: PHYTOSEIIDAE).', Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 32(2), pp. 1435-1441. doi: 10.21608/jppp.2007.219421
Abd – Elrahman,, S., Ibrahiem, A. INFLUECNE OF THE PREY TYPE ON THE BIOLOGY AND LIFE TABLE PARAMETERS OF THE PREDATORY MITE Phytoseiulus macropilis (BANKS) (ACARI: PHYTOSEIIDAE).. Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2007; 32(2): 1435-1441. doi: 10.21608/jppp.2007.219421
INFLUECNE OF THE PREY TYPE ON THE BIOLOGY AND LIFE TABLE PARAMETERS OF THE PREDATORY MITE Phytoseiulus macropilis (BANKS) (ACARI: PHYTOSEIIDAE).
Plant Protection Research Institute, Acarine Pests of Cotton Dept., Agriculture Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.
Abstract
The predatory mite Phytoseiulus macropillis (Bank) was fed on eggs, nymphs and adult stages of Tetranychus urticae Koch and Tetranychus cucurbitacearum (Sayed). Prey spider mites were collected from growing cucumber plants in plastic tunnels in Nubaria provinces during summer of 2003 and 2004. Reproduction rates were almost similar on both of T. urticae and T. cucurbitacearum, however feeding on nymph stages of either of the prey species resulted in the lower ones.