Functional and numerical responses, mutual interference, and resource switching of Amblyseius swirskii on two-spotted spider mite

Fathipour, Yaghoub; Maleknia, Bahador; Bagheri, Abdoolnabi; Soufbaf, Mahmoud; Reddy, Gadi V. P.

doi:10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104266

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“…Because moisture increased in the SY diet after 2 weeks, this may have disturbed the foraging and reproduction of A. swirskii (even though C. lactis was still able to reproduce in these conditions). High prey densities might interfere with A. swirskii on the SY diet (Chant 1961); additionally, a saturating type II functional response as well as mutual interference by A. swirskii itself (Fathipour et al 2020) may limit oviposition rates and fecundity (Nakamichi et al 2020). In this study, A. swirskii populations (both males and females) increased 40.5 times after 30 days without additional prey at an initial predator:prey ratio of 1:20, on the baker's yeast diet.…”

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Optimal rearing medium for the population growth of the predatory mite, Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

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Tuda

Nakahira

et al. 2020

Egypt J Biol Pest Control

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Background The successful rearing of predators or parasitoids is one of the most important elements in biological control programs. The dried fruit mite, Carpoglyphus lactis (L.), can be used as an alternative prey for the phytoseiid predatory mite, Amblyseius swirs0kii (Athias-Henriot). Main body This study aimed to evaluate the suitability of 3 different diets for C. lactis when rearing A. swirskii: brown sugar, baker’s yeast, and the mixture of brown sugar and baker’s yeast along with 3 initial predator:prey ratios (1:7, 1:12, and 1:20). After 30 days, both the baker’s yeast and the mixture of brown sugar + baker’s yeast diets resulted in the highest predator densities (40.5 times increase at an initial predator:prey ratio of 1:20, with the baker’s yeast diet), whereas the mixture diet produced the highest density of prey. The brown sugar resulted in the lowest number of predator and prey mites. This may be due to lower feeding and predation rates of the prey and the predator mites on the brown sugar medium since its relative moisture content and adhesiveness inhibits mite movement. The final predator:prey ratio was also highest on the baker’s yeast diet. Conclusions This study demonstrated that the population growth of A. swirskii was the highest when C. lactis was reared on baker’s yeast.

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Optimal rearing medium for the population growth of the predatory mite, Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

San

Tuda

Nakahira

et al. 2020

Egypt J Biol Pest Control

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“…To avoid the deviation of feeding experience (Castagnoli & Simoni 1999;Mendes et al 2018), both phytoseiid species were uniformly fed with wolfberry mite galls for 30 days prior to bioassay. In addition, the type of functional response is not constant, which can be influenced by the alternative food and the stage of prey (Ganjisaffar & Perring 2015;Li et al 2018;Fathipour et al 2020). Due to the small size of A. pallida (Kuang 1983), only adult A. pallida were provided in the present study.…”

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Functional response of Amblyseius andersoni and Neoseiulus neoreticuloides (Acari: Phytoseiidae) to adults of the wolfberry gall mite Aceria pallida (Acari: Eriophyoidae)

Liu

et al. 2021

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The gall mite, Aceria pallida Keifer (Acari: Eriophyoidae) is an economically important pest of wolfberry Lycium barbarum L. and can cause significant losses to plant production. Two species of phytoseiid predatory mites, Amblyseius andersoni Chant and Neoseiulus neoreticuloides Liang & Hu were found on L. barbarum in Bayan Nur city, Inner Mongolia, China. We assessed the potential of these two phytoseiid species as biological control agents against A. pallida, using functional response experiments with seven prey densities (5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 adults of A. pallida) on a wolfberry leaf under 25ºC ± 1ºC, 60% ± 5% RH and a 16:8 h (L:D) photoperiod. Overall, the predation of both species increased with increase in prey density. The consumption of A. andersoni female was significantly greater than that of conspecific males and N. neoreticuloides female at high prey densities. Both phytoseiid species displayed a type II functional response to A. pallida. Female A. andersoni had a higher attack rate (5.961) and a shorter handling time (0.014 d) than male A. andersoni (1.619; 0.019 d) and female N. neoreticuloides (0.719; 0.023 d). The maximum attack rate (T/Th) was estimated to be 71.43 and 52.63 for female and male A. andersoni, respectively, while it was 43.48 for female N. neoreticuloides. Both female and male A. andersoni consistently consumed significantly more prey than N. neoreticuloides across all densities of A. pallida adults.

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“…Amblyseius tamatavensis has been reported as potentially useful for Bemisia tabaci control of in over 20 countries around the world (Marcela et al, 2019). Amblyseius swirskii predatory mite has been used to control thrips, whiteflies pest in the greenhouse (Fathipour et al, 2020). Amblyseius swirskii recoded high efficacy against both of silver leaf whitefly and two-spotted spider mite (Asadi et al, 2019).…”

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Evaluation of Some Predatory Mites effect Against Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Infesting Tomato Crop

Shehawy

Maklad

Mahmoud

et al. 2020

Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, F. Toxicology

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In order to maximize the sustainable development and minimize using of chemical insecticide and its hazards to the environment, the current study was designed to elucidate the possible predacious effect of some predatory mites namely; Neoseiulus californicus, Typhlodrompis swirskii, Neoseiulus cucumeris, Typhlodromus nigavi, Phytoseiulius persimilis and Vertemic/Egyxide oil combination against Bemisia tabaci, in two summer seasons of tomato cultivars, either as a single treatment or in combination in a 2-yr field study; August 2018 and August 2019 in complete randomized block design. The results indicated that the single treatment of T. swirskii and T. nigavi as well as Vertemic/Egyxide oil (1ml + 2.5 ml/ liter combination) recoded 95.83, 81.16, and 77.39 reduction percentages in B. tabaci population in the first season respectively, the general mean of B. tabaci in the two seasons was 0.598, 3.307 and 3.379 individual/leaflet respectively after treatment by T. swirskii and T. nigavi and Vertemic/Egyxide oil. Moreover, a single treatment of N. californicus and N. cucumeris had a weak reduction effect against B. tabaci. Meanwhile, P. persimilis reduction effect was non significantly different from the control. Whereas, in the case of combination treatment the results indicated that all combination treatment had a significant reduction effect against B. tabaci in the two seasons compared with the control in the two seasons. Our results indicated a considerable role of different predatory mites including; T. swirskii and T. nigavi as effective biological control agents or Vertemic/Egyxide oil combination against B. tabaci and can be useful in integrated management programs of B. tabaci pest.

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Functional and numerical responses, mutual interference, and resource switching of Amblyseius swirskii on two-spotted spider mite

Cited by 35 publications

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Optimal rearing medium for the population growth of the predatory mite, Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

Optimal rearing medium for the population growth of the predatory mite, Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

<p class="Body"><strong>Functional response of <em>Amblyseius andersoni </em>and <em>Neoseiulus neoreticuloides</em> (Acari: Phytoseiidae) to adults of the wolfberry gall mite <em>Aceria pallida </em>(Acari: Eriophyoidae)</strong></p>

Evaluation of Some Predatory Mites effect Against Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Infesting Tomato Crop

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