Abstract
Mites feature prominently in greenhouses, both as pests causing economic injury to crops and as predatory mites used in biological control of mite and insect pests.
Spider mites, false spider mites, tarsonemid mites, and eriophyid mites injure both vegetable crops and ornamental plants. Acarid mites damage the bulbs of flowers and stored roots of many crops. Their damage symptoms, biology, and management are discussed.
The predatory phytoseiid and laelapid mites are used in the biological control of mite pests and thrips on many crops in greenhouses. Their biology and use in biocontrol of insect and mite pests of greenhouse crops are discussed.
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Reddy, P.P. (2016). Pest and Predatory Mites. In: Sustainable Crop Protection under Protected Cultivation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-952-3_20
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