EFFECT OF DICOFOL ON OVIPOSITION AND REPRODUCTIVE PARAMETERS OF Euseius mesembrinus (ACARI: PHYTOSEIIDAE)

Authors

  • Adriana E. Flores-Suárez
  • Salvador Flores-Breceda
  • Mohammad H. Badii
  • Emilio Hernández-Ortiz

Keywords:

Microchamber, leaf-sand, life tables, fertility tables

Abstract

Pesticides affect not only insect plagues but its biocontrol agents also. Dicofol is a widely used acaricide in México, so it is important to know the response of Euseius mesembrinus (Dean) to this chemical product. Increasing concentrations of dicofol (from a minimum of 10 mL L-1) significantly reduced oviposition rates of this predatory mite using leaf dip technique both in microchamber and leaf-sand. However, exposure of females to 10 mL L-1 dicofol neither decreased their reproductive parameters nor those of their descendants.

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Published

30-06-1997

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 2 (1997): 1997-abr-jun

Section

Plant Protection

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