▪ Abstract This review categorizes the diversity of life-styles in the Phytoseiidae, based
primarily on food habits and related biological and morphological traits. The life-styles …

Cannibalism, the killing and consumption of conspecific individuals, is a common and
widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom. Cannibalism in phytoseiid mites has been …

To understand the role of allelochemicals in predator-prey interactions it is not sufficient to
study the behavioral responses of predator and prey. One should elucidate the origin of the …

Examples of how plants obtain and arrest predatory mites as defences against
phytophagous mites are discussed. It has been known for a long time that some plant …

A volatile kairomone emitted from lima bean plants (Phaseolus lunatus) infested with the
spider mite Tetranychus urticae, was collected on Tenax-TA and analyzed with GC-MS. Two …

Plants that are damaged by herbivorous arthropods provide carnivorous enemies of the
herbivores with important information. They emit an induced volatile blend that is highly …

The commercially available strains of Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot, the biological
control agent of Tetranychus urticae Koch, perform poorly in the Western Mediterranean …

Numerous studies have been devoted to estimating the intrinsic rates of increase, rm, of
phytoseiid and tetranychid mites. Intrinsic rates of increase may be helpful for biological …

Little is known about the flow of chemical information from higher to lower levels within the
animal food chain. However, this information may determine the behavior and distribution of …

Phytoseiid mites use herbivore-induced plant volatiles in long-range prey-habitat location
and are arrested by these volatiles in a prey patch. The responses of predatory mites to …