Occurrence of predatory mites of the Phytoseiidae family on apple-trees in integrated and ecological orchards

Abstract

Praslička J., Barteková A. (2008): Occurrence of predatory mites of the Phytoseiidae family on apple-trees in integrated and ecological orchards. Plant Protect. Sci., 44: 57-60.During the 2005-2007, we identified six species of predatory mites in the integrated and an ecological orchard: Phytoseius echinus, Phytoseius macropilis, Euseius finlandicus, Typhlodromus pyri, Paraseiulus triporus and Amblyseius andersoni. The species Phytoseius echinus, Euseius finlandicus and Typhlodromus pyri occurred in both orchards. Phytoseius echinus was dominant especially in the ecological orchard, where its abundance was almost 60% of the overall number of detected mites. The number of all predatory mites differed considerably in the orchards; there was a higher abundance in the ecological orchard. Euseius finlandicus abundance was 38.32% in the integrated orchard and almost 17.61% in the ecological orchard. Typhlodromus pyri abundance was 17.96% in the integrated orchard and 13.63% in the ecological orchard. Paraseiulus triporus, Amblyseius andersoni and Phytoseius macropilis were less abundant.

Comparative faunistic analysis of mite species on neglected and conventional pome fruit trees in Turkey

“…Many studies on mite species associated with pome fruits were conducted in various countries. For example, mite species on apple trees in England (Collyer 1956), Michigan (USA) (Strickler et al 1987), Finland (Tuovinen and Rokx 1991), Israel (Palevsky et al 1996), Slovakia (Praslicka and Bartekova 2008), Iran (Rahmani et al 2010), Syria (Dahiah et al 2011), Serbia (Stojnic et al 2014) and Egypt (Hussian et al 2018); pear mite fauna in Britain (Bergh and Weiss 1993), Egypt (Ismailia) (Osman and Mahmoud 2008); mite species on both apple and pear trees in Slovakia (Praslicka et al 2009) and India (Singh et al 2016) were determined.…”