Typhlodromips swirskii (Acari: Phytoseiidae): A Predator of Eriophyid and Tetranychid Mango Mites in Egypt

Abstract

The predacious mite Typhlodromips swirskii (Athias-Henriot) successfully developed to the adult stage when fed on the motile stages of the mango bud mite Aceria mangiferae Sayed, the mango rust mite Metaculus mangiferae (Attiah), the leaf coating mite Cisaberoptus kenyae Keifer and nymphs of the mango red mite Oligonychus mangiferus (Rahman and Sabra)

The Lesser Wax Moth Achroia grisella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): A New Diet for Rearing Three Predatory Mites of the Family Phytoseiidae

“…The lower performance of Cydnoseius negevi towards Achroia grisella eggs may be due to 1) inadequacies of level of certain nutrients of eggs required for developing their ovarioles or eggs, 2) it could be caused also by the presence of an antifeeding factor in the eggs. The oviposition rate of Amblyseius swirskii on Achroia grisella eggs was higher than those fed on bee pollen (0.14 eggs/F), date pollen (8.7 eggs/F) and the acarid mite Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) (3.69 eggs/F) and comparable with those fed on Rhyncaphytoptus ficifoliae Keifer (20.0 eggs/F) (Diptilomiopidae) and the mango red spider mite Oligonychus mangiferus (Rahman and Sapra) (20.9 eggs/F) (Abou-Awad et al, 1999, 2010Riahi et al, 2017a,b). When Neoseiulus barkeri fed on Eutetranychus kankitus Ehara and Panonychus citri (McGregor) as natural prey, the oviposition rate was higher than those fed on Achroia grisella eggs presently (Ying Li et al, 2017).…”

Role of four Phytoseiid mite species and Acarophagous Ladybird, Stetlrorus gilvifrons (Mulsant) as Bioagents of the Two Spotted Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae Koch

“…Also, Fiaboe et al, (2007) showed that life cycle of S. tridens Gordon durated 17.4 days when fed T. evansi Baker & Pritchard at 27 ° C. while, Taghizadeh et al , (2008a) stated that S .gilvifrons completed its life cycle after 12.49 days when fed on T urticae at 30 ° C. On the other hand, most phytoseiid species completed their life cycle at a constant temperature of 25-28 °C with in a range of 5-8 days (Fouly and EI-Laithy, 1992: Osman. 2000: Popov and Kondryakov, 2008Abou-Awad et a!., 2009 andA bad-Moyano et of., 2009). Whereas, Mahgoub (2006) stated that life cycle of N. cucumeris feamale durated 4.4, 6.6 and 6.3 days when reared on eggs, immatures and adults of T urticae respectively at 30 °C.…”