SOME EFFECTS OF PREY DENSITY ON SURVIVAL, SPEED OF DEVELOPMENT, AND FECUNDITY OF THE PREDACEOUS MITE MELICHARES DENTRITICUS (BERL.) (ACARINA: ACEOSEJIDAE)

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Laboratory experiments indicated that survival, speed of development, and fecundity of Melichares dentriticus (Berl.) fed larvae of Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) increased, and that the proportion of prey eaten decreased, with increasing number of prey available. The fecundity of the adult was little influenced by the nutritional history of its developmental stages, except at a very low prey density.