This review discusses the economically important pest mites (Acari) of greenhouses,
aspects of their biology, and the acarine predators that attack them as well as various insect …

The tobacco whitefly, Bemisia tabaci Gennadius (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), is a key pest in
commercial sweet pepper crops in southeast Spain. Its biological control is currently based …

Two commercially-marketed natural enemies of Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), a
phytoseiid mite, Amblyseius (= Typhlodromips) swirskii (Athias-Henriot), and an anthocorid …

Omnivores obtain resources from more than one trophic level, choosing food based on
quantity and quality. They usually engage in intraguild predation (IGP) when prey is scarce …

In three-dimensional microcosm set-ups we explored the influence of host plant traits of
cucumber, eggplant and sweet pepper on the interactions between minute pirate bugs …

To understand the influence of plant quality on intraguild predation and consequently on the
suppression of a shared prey population as well as on plant yield, the interactions between …

The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande)(Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is
a key pest of sweet pepper cultivation, where it causes feeding damage, excretes phytotoxic …

We examined reciprocal intraguild predation (IGP) and cannibalism among various
combinations of Coleomegilla maculata DeGeer and Chrysoperla cornea Stephens larvae …

Phytoseiid predatory mites are efficient biocontrol agents of important thrips pests, such as
the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis Pergande (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) …

This study was carried out on the ability of predatory thrips Scolothrips longicornis Priesner
to feed on 2 phytoseiid species and vice versa. Also the effect of predation of Neoseiulus …