1. Population structure of the predatory mite Neoseiulus womersleyi in a tea field based on an analysis of microsatellite DNA markers

   • Norihide Hinomoto
   • Yasuhiro Todokoro
   • Tomomi Higaki

   OriginalPaper Open access 13 July 2010 Pages: 1 - 15

   

2. Life tables and development of Amblyseius swirskii (Acari: Phytoseiidae) at different temperatures

   • Heung-Su Lee
   • David R. Gillespie

   OriginalPaper 14 July 2010 Pages: 17 - 27

   

3. Sublethal effects of abamectin on the biological performance of the predatory mite, Phytoseius plumifer (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

   • Nayereh Hamedi
   • Yaghoub Fathipour
   • Moosa Saber

   OriginalPaper 13 July 2010 Pages: 29 - 40

   

4. Life history of Sancassania polyphyllae (Acari: Acaridae) feeding on dissected tissues of its phoretic host, Polyphylla fullo (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): temperature effects

   • Ibrahim Cakmak
   • Mehmet Karagoz
   • Harry K. Kaya

   OriginalPaper 14 July 2010 Pages: 41 - 49

   

5. Overwintering survival and postdiapause fecundity in a population of the Kanzawa spider mite Tetranychus kanzawai (Acari: Tetranychidae) on Orixa japonica (Rutaceae)

   • Katsura Ito

   OriginalPaper 13 July 2010 Pages: 51 - 56

   

6. Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) as a management agent for free-living Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) in Ohio

   • K. R. Cradock
   • G. R. Needham

   OriginalPaper 04 July 2010 Pages: 57 - 62

7. Antigen-presenting cells in draining lymph nodes of goats repeatedly infested by the Cayenne tick Amblyomma cajennense nymphs

   • Gaby Ermelindo Roberto Monteiro
   • Gervásio Henrique Bechara
   • Isabel Kinney Ferreira de Miranda Santos

   OriginalPaper 02 July 2010 Pages: 63 - 69

   

8. Tertiary structure-related activity of tick defensin (persulcatusin) in the taiga tick, Ixodes persulcatus

   • Emiko Isogai
   • Hiroshi Isogai
   • Yoichi Kurebayashi

   OriginalPaper 02 July 2010 Pages: 71 - 77

   

9. Attachment site selection of ticks on roe deer, Capreolus capreolus

   • C. Kiffner
   • C. Lödige
   • F. Rühe

   OriginalPaper Open access 29 June 2010 Pages: 79 - 94

   

10. Ticks infesting the endangered Italian hare (Lepus corsicanus) and their habitat in an ecological park in southern Italy

    • Filipe Dantas-Torres
    • Gabriella Testini
    • Domenico Otranto

    OriginalPaper 15 August 2010 Pages: 95 - 102