COMPARISON STUDIES ON THE POPULATION DYNAMIC OF Panonychus citri (MCGREGOR) INHABITING CITRUS TREES AT ASSUIT AND KAFR EL-SHEIKH GOVERNORATES

Metwally, A. M.; El-Sayed, K. M.; Abd El-Maksoud, M. A.; El-Shamy, E. A.

doi:10.21608/jppp.2015.74941

COMPARISON STUDIES ON THE POPULATION DYNAMIC OF Panonychus citri (MCGREGOR) INHABITING CITRUS TREES AT ASSUIT AND KAFR EL-SHEIKH GOVERNORATES

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Dept. of Agric.Zoology and Nematology,Fac. of Agric., Dept., Al-Azhar Univ., Cairo, Egypt.

² Fruit Acarology Dept., Plant Protec. Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Cent., Giza, Egypt.

³ Dept. of Agric. Zoology and Nematology, Fac. of Agric., Al-Azhar Univ., Assiut Branch, Egypt.

10.21608/jppp.2015.74941

Abstract

It was observed that the highest rate of numerical density for citrus red mite P. citri (McGregor) in September at Kafr El-Sheikh, where the injury in the summer months and then gradually less in the winter months. It was found that the most common variety of municipal Balady orange citrus susceptible to this species followed by lemon while the less sensitive for infection was Mandarein . Numerical density rate of the mite species P. citri more at Kafr El-Sheikh than the numbers of this species at Assiut.