Mites on Plants

Walter, David; Proctor, H. C.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7164-2_8

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“…In contrast with other herbivorous mites that hibernate on host plants (Krantz & Lindquist, 1979; Michalska et al, 2010; Walter & Proctor, 2013), A. pallida is a phoront that is obligately phoretic on the psyllid Bactericera gobica for survival in the winter (Liu et al, 2016; Li et al, 2018). Although our results confirmed that artificial defoliation was effective in controlling the gall mite, the effect on the psyllid was unknown.…”

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A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida

Liu

Guo

et al. 2019

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Artificial defoliant is widely applied to cotton to facilitate mechanical harvesting and successfully controls leaf diseases by blocking pathogen epidemical cycles; however, this technique is rarely used to control herbivores. Because many eriophyoid mites live and reproduce in galls, the control of these mites by pesticides is usually limited. However, the abscission of galled foliage is lethal to tiny mites with low mobility. Therefore, artificial defoliation should be effective in controlling gall mites. Here, the effects of defoliant on the control of the goji berry Lycium barbarum L. gall mite Aceria pallida Keifer were compared with those of pesticides under field conditions over 3 years. Our results showed that artificial defoliation enabled almost complete defoliation and timely refoliation. A. pallida galls fell off with the defoliation, and then regenerated foliage escaped from mite attack. After defoliant application, the densities of mite galls decreased by 84.1%, 80.3% and 80.3% compared with those found in the pesticide (undefoliated) treatment in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. Artificial defoliation achieved much better control of gall mites than pesticides.

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A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida

Liu

Guo

et al. 2019

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“…In carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) mites at abnormally large densities negatively affected their host beetle fitness [34]. Several factors are known to influence phoretic mite loads across beetle populations, including forest tree composition [16,35], temperature [36][37][38], geographic distance and dispersal (reviewed in [39]), and beetle abundance [29,40]. Since the mountain pine beetle shows varying preferences for certain pine species [12], with the abundance of preferred host trees, and local climate varying among forests [4][5][6], it is expected that mite assemblages differ across beetle populations, but this is rarely tested.…”

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Patterns of Diversity in the Symbiotic Mite Assemblage of the Mountain Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Ponderosae Hopkins

Vissa

Mercado

Malesky³

et al. 2020

Forests

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The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Scolytinae), is an economically important bark beetle species with a wide geographic range spanning from the southwestern United States into northern Canada. This beetle causes extensive tree mortality to 13 pine species. Mites (Acari) are common and abundant symbionts of mountain beetles that may influence their fitness through positive and negative interactions. We present a unique assessment of the mite associates of mountain pine beetles using measures of alpha and beta diversity. We sampled phoretic mites from five beetle populations: Arizona, Colorado, South Dakota, Utah (USA), and Alberta (Canada) that varied in host tree species, local climate, and beetle population level. We collected 4848 mites from 8 genera and 12 species. Fifty to seventy percent of beetles carried mites in flight with the highest mite loads occurring in middle and southern populations; decreasing in northern populations. Mite assemblages (i.e., both richness and composition) varied along a south to north latitudinal gradient and were driven by species turnover (i.e., species replacement). Differences in mite composition increased with distance between populations. We discuss climatic variation, environmental filtering, and host tree differences as factors that could affect differences in mite composition between beetle populations and discuss implications for functional shifts. Our results could represent a model for estimating diversity patterns of mite symbionts associated with other major insect pests in coniferous forest systems.

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Berry species and crop management approaches affect species diversity and abundance of predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

Villalvazo-Valdovinos

Guzmán‐Franco

Váldez-Carrasco

et al. 2023

Exp Appl Acarol

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Mites on Plants

Cited by 6 publications

References 238 publications

A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida

A new method of gall mite management: application of artificial defoliation to control Aceria pallida

Patterns of Diversity in the Symbiotic Mite Assemblage of the Mountain Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus Ponderosae Hopkins

Berry species and crop management approaches affect species diversity and abundance of predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

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