Biology and Feeding Potential of Predatory Mite, Amblyseius longispinosus (Evans) on Cotton Red Spider Mite, Tetranychus macfarlanei Baker and Pritchard

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Authors

  • Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Raichur ,IN
  • Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Raichur ,IN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18311/jbc/1995/7623

Keywords:

Amblyseius longispinosus, Tetranychus marfarlanei, Biology, Feeding Potential, Preference.

Abstract

The phytosciid predator, Amblyseius longispinosusisp (Evans) has heen proved to he a very good predator of Tetranychid mites (Mallik, 1974). Biology of A.longispinisus has been studied on Tetranychus ludeni Zacher (Mallik, 1974) and Oligonychus indicus Hirst (Manjunatha, 1988; Anil, 1990). The feeding preference and feeding potential of the predator has been studied by Anil (1990) only on O. indicus. However, information on its biology, feeding potential and fceding preference on the red spider mite, Tetranychus macfarlanei Baker and Pritchard is not available and so experiments were conducted under laboratory conditions to study these parameters.