PATTERNS OF SPATIAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SPIDER-MITES (ACARI, TETRANYCHIDAE) AND THEIR NATURAL ENEMIES ON COTTON Academic Article

abstract

• Included were the spider mites Tetranychus spp, western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis, big-eyed bugs Geocoris pallens and G. punctipes, and the minute pirate bug Orius tristicolor. Association patterns were modeled using a log-linear statistical model. Co-occurrence patterns for most species pairs were significantly nonrandom and mostly positive and were seen to change over the season. In general, associations tended to become increasingly positive (or less negative) as the season progressed. Pesticide treatments did not affect associations. -from Authors

authors

• Wilson, Lloyd

published proceedings

• ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

• SCHOENIG, S. E., & WILSON, L. T.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• SCHOENIG, SE||WILSON, LT

publication date

• January 1992

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• Environmental Entomology  Journal

keywords

• Arachnida
• Natural Enemies
• Spatial Associations
• Tetranychus Spp

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1093/ee/21.3.471

start page

• 471

end page

• 477

volume

• 21

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ee/21.3.471