Mites from the family Phytoseiidae as an element of an anti-resistant strategy for protecting fruit plantations from spider mites
Journal: Bulletin of the State Nikitsky Botanical Gardens
Year: 2021

In the last decade, the acarocomplex of apple orchards in the plain-steppe zone of the Crimea was dominated by two species of mites, fam. Tetranychidae - Amphitetranychus viennensis (Zacher) and Panonychus ulmi (Koch). Their share in the complex of phytophagous mites was 52.5 and 32.0%, respectively. Against the background of repeated acaricidal treatments during the season, the emergence of resistant races of phytophagous mites was recorded. The proposed anti-resistant strategy for controlling