1. The Effects of Prey Patchiness, Predator Aggregation, and Mutual Interference on the Functional Response of Phytoseiulus persimilis Feeding on Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Phytoseiidae, Tetranychidae)

   • Gösta Nachman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 111

2. Previous and Present Diets of Mite Predators Affect Antipredator Behaviour of Whitefly Prey

   • Rui-Xia Meng
   • Arne Janssen
   • Maurice W. Sabelis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 124

3. Assessing the Effects of Bt Maize on the Predatory Mite Neoseiulus cucumeris

   • Lena B. Obrist
   • Heiri Klein
   • Franz Bigler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 139

4. Testing for Non-target Effects of Spinosad on Twospotted Spider Mites and their Predator Phytoseiulus persimilis under Greenhouse Conditions

   • Kiffnie M. Holt
   • George P. Opit
   • David C. Margolies

   OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 149

5. Evaluation of Resistance Pattern to Fenpyroximate and Pyridaben in Tetranychus Urticae collected from Ggreenhouses and Apple Orchards using Lethal Concentration-slope Relationship

   • Eunho Suh
   • Sang-Hyun Koh
   • Kijong Cho

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 165

6. Laboratory Studies on the use of Two New Arenas to Evaluate the Impact of the Predatory Mites Blattisocius tarsalis and Cheyletus eruditus on Residual Populations of the Stored Product Mite Acarus siro

   • B. B. Thind
   • H. L. Ford

   OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 180

7. Rickettsial Agents from Parasitic Dermanyssoidea (Acari: Mesostigmata)

   • Will K. Reeves
   • Ashley P. G. Dowling
   • Gregory A. Dasch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 188

8. Comparison of Preservation Methods of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Acari: Ixodidae) for Reliable DNA Amplification by PCR

   • Jupiter Mtambo
   • Wim Van Bortel
   • Thierry Backeljau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 199

9. Physiological Age of Field-collected Female Taiga Ticks, Ixodes persulcatus (Acari: Ixodidae), and their Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato

   • Igor Uspensky
   • Yuri V. Kovalevskii
   • Edward I. Korenberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 209

10. Performance of a Prototype Baited-trap in Attracting and Infecting the Tick Amblyomma variegatum (Acari: Ixodidae) in Field Experiments

    • R. O. Maranga
    • A. Hassanali
    • J. M. Mueke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 218

11. The Known Distribution and Ecological Preferences of the Tick Subgenus Boophilus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Africa and Latin America

    • A. Estrada-Peña
    • A. Bouattour
    • A. R. Walker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 235