“…Recently, extracts of various plants have been shown to possess acaricidal activities against T. cinnabarinus , such as those of Mentha piperita (Ren et al, ), Curcuma longa L. (Liu et al, ), Inula britanica (Ma et al, ), Chenopodium quinoa Willd (Harder, Tello, & Giliomee, ), Solanum nigrum Linn (Chen & Dai, ), Aloe vera L. (Zhang, Zhang, Luo, & Ding, ), Lactuca sativa (Li et al, ) and Polygonum aviculare (Cheng, Wang, Ma, Liu, & Shi, ) . These acaricidal plants influence the growth and development of T. cinnabarinus through repellence, antifeeding effects or oviposition deterrence (Chen & Dai, ).…”