Survival, development and reproduction ofEuseius finlandicus(Oudemans) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) fed on various kinds of food substances

Suitability of date palm pollen as an alternative food source for the predatory mite Cydnoseius negevi (Swirski and Amitai) (Acari: Phytoseiidae) at a low relative humidity

“…Similar trends were reported by Mutisya et al (2014) while studying biology of T. aripo feeding on cassava green mite, M. progresivus Doreste. However, the total mean fecundity and adult longevity of C. negevi fed on date palm pollen, even at 60 % RH, was recorded greatly lower in the present study as compared when it fed on castor bean pollen, Ricinus communis L at 70-75 % RH (Abou Awad Abou-Awad et al, 1989Abou-Elella et al, 2013Riahi et al, 2017Riahi et al, 2016Abou-Elella et al, 2014Fouly et al, 2013Abou-Elella et al, 2013 Al shammery, 2011 Fouly, 1997Zaher et al, 1969…”

“…The biology and life table parameters of several phytoseiid mite species feeding on date palm pollen have been studied so far, e.g., Amblyseius swirskii Athias-Henriot, Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) bagdasarjani Wainstein & Arutunjan (Abou-Elella et al 2013;Riahi et al 2016;, Euseius scutalis (Athias-Henriot) (Al-Shammery 2011;Abou-Elella et al 2013;Abou-Elella et al 2014;Fouly et al 2013), E. finlandicus (Oudemans) (Abou-Elella et al 2014), and Proprioseiopsis asetus (Chant) (Fouly 1997) (Table 4). Moreover, several studies have been conducted on C. negevi feeding on different preys, e.g., tetranychid and eriophyid mites, and small insects (Table 5) (Momen 1997;Abou-Awad et al 1989;Negm et al 2014;Metwally et al 2015) (Table 5).…”

Predatory mites, a green pesticide, and an Entomopathogenic compound: A proposed IPM tactic based on pest species diversity indices and population dynamics

“…Till now, very large number of predatory and/or parasite taxa been used to control pest infestations that caused massive economic losses (Smagghe and Diaz, 2012). Predatory phytoseiid mites have reported to be successful control means for spider mites (Negm et al, 2014;Alatawi et al, 2018), eriophyids (Momen et al, 2004(Momen et al, , 2014Momen and Abdel-Khalek, 2008;Abou-Elella et al, 2014;Melo et al, 2015;Abdel-Khalek and Momen, 2022;Ferreira et al, 2022), whiteflies (Teich, 1966;Nomikou et al, 2001Nomikou et al, , 2002Nomikou et al, , 2003, thrips (Messelink et al, 2006;Arthurs et al, 2009;Sanad and Hassan, 2019), aphids (Messelink et al, 2013), and they were proven to fed alternative sources as pollen (van Rijn and Tanigoshi, 1999;Abou-Elella et al, 2014;Delisle et al, 2015 b;Rahmani et al, 2021;Xin and Zhang, 2021), fungi (Zemek and Prenerová, 1997;Momen and Abdelkhader, 2010), or other factitious food/artificial diet to be mass produced (Janssen and Sabelis, 2015;Delisle et al, 2015 a, b;Momen et al, 2020;Xin and Zhang, 2021). New trends of bio-agents which been used are the Entomopathogenic fungal species, e.g., Beauveria bassiana (Bals.)…”