Effect of fungal infection on reproductive potential and survival time of Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae).

Exp Appl Acarol

Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, People's Republic of China.

Published: July 2009

The effect of fungal infection on the reproductive potential of two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, was evaluated as part of the full biocontrol potential of three entomopathogenic fungi by modeling of fecundity probability. Female mites (or= 0.98), yielding a solution to the probability for the female mites to achieve a specific fecundity {P(m 10 eggs despite some variation among the tested fungi. In contrast, the chances for the non-infected mites to achieve the low and high fecundities were 23 and 55%. The fitted probabilities provide a full coverage of the fecundity potential of infected versus non-infected mites and are more informative than the mean fecundities.

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