Approaches Brown wheat mite. In the fall, as temperature and moisture conditionsimprove, these eggs start to develop and hatch after 10 days incubation.
Females follow in about two weeks.
As summerconditions return, a generations of females is produced which lay onlythe white oversummering egg. Both egg types are placed on soil particlesnear the base of the wheat plant. BWM feeds during the day and spend the night in the soil. Plant Response and Damage Damage from BWM has been reported from a wide variety of crops, includingsorghum, onions, fruit trees, carrots, cotton, lettuce, iris, alfalfa, and clover. Management Approaches Because this problem is so sporadic, chemical control is the only effectivemanagement practice.