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ARS Home Pacific West Area Wapato, Washington Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research Research





- Horton, David
- Cooper, William - Rodney
- Crop Protection & Quarantine (304)

Research Project: **Location:
                            Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research** Project Number: 2092-22000-022-033-S
                        
                        Project Type: Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement Start Date: Jun 1, 2023
                        
                        End Date: May 31, 2025 **Objective:**
                        
                        Determine the role of whirligig mite in commercial potatoes as source of biological control. **Approach:**
                        
                        USDA-ARS scientists in Wapato, WAc and Washington State University Cooperators in both Wapato, WA and Pasco, WA will describe the phenology of whirligig mite in potatoes  by sampling three fields at regular intervals between June and harvest in September. 
Three sampling tools will be compared, consisting of straw-filled mesh bags, the same bags but with a food supplement, and plant shaking. 
Prey fed upon by the mite in fields will be examined using molecular methods to detect prey DNA harbored by field-collected mites.


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