| Life table parameters and the effect of feeding predator mites Typhlodromus pyri Scheuten and Cydnodromus californicus (McGregor) with different development stages of phytophagous mite Brevipalpus chilensis Baker was studied at laboratory conditions of 25 ± 2ºC, 60 ± 5% RH and 16:8 h (L:D). Life table parameters including net reproductive rate (Ro), finite rate of increase (λ), intrinsic rate of increase (r m) and mean generation time (T) of T. pyri, C. californicus, and B. chilensis were studied. Postembryonic development and oviposition rate of T. pyri and C. californicus were evaluated on response to food diet that included eggs, immature and adult stages of B. chilensis It was possible to determine the influence that each food type had on the... |
