1. The effect of the presence of quiescent female nymphs, males and their spermatophores on spermatophore placement in two species of eriophyoid mites

   • Katarzyna Michalska
   • Marcin Studnicki

   OriginalPaper Open access 18 January 2013 Pages: 433 - 444

   

2. Indirect evidence that guarded quiescent deutonymph females invest energy to attract conspecific males in the Kanzawa spider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae)?

   • Keiko Oku
   • Takeshi Shimoda

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2013 Pages: 445 - 449

   

3. Asymmetry in male lethal fight between parapatric forms of a social spider mite

   • Yukie Sato
   • Maurice W. Sabelis
   • Atsushi Mochizuki

   OriginalPaper 19 February 2013 Pages: 451 - 461

   

4. Genetic basis of woven nest size in subsocial spider mites

   • Kotaro Mori
   • Yutaka Saito

   OriginalPaper 12 February 2013 Pages: 463 - 469

   

5. Relationship between body colour, feeding, and reproductive arrest under short-day development in Tetranychus pueraricola (Acari: Tetranychidae)

   • Katsura Ito
   • Tatsuya Fukuda
   • Yutaka Saito

   OriginalPaper 19 February 2013 Pages: 471 - 477

   

6. Relative contribution of biotic and abiotic factors to the population density of the cassava green mite, Mononychellus tanajoa (Acari: Tetranychidae)

   • Adriano S. Rêgo
   • Adenir V. Teodoro
   • Renato A. Sarmento

   OriginalPaper 17 February 2013 Pages: 479 - 484

   

7. Susceptibility and physiological responses of Jatropha curcas accessions to broad mite infestation

   • Anderson Barbosa Evaristo
   • Madelaine Venzon
   • Luiz Antônio dos Santos Dias

   OriginalPaper 01 March 2013 Pages: 485 - 496

   

8. Performance of Amblyseius herbicolus on broad mites and on castor bean and sunnhemp pollen

   • Fredy Alexander Rodríguez-Cruz
   • Madelaine Venzon
   • Cleide Maria Ferreira Pinto

   OriginalPaper 17 February 2013 Pages: 497 - 507

   

9. Driving factors of the communities of phytophagous and predatory mites in a physic nut plantation and spontaneous plants associated

   • Wilton P. Cruz
   • Renato A. Sarmento
   • Maíra Ignacio

   OriginalPaper 17 February 2013 Pages: 509 - 519

   

10. Spread and strain determination of Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae) in Madagascar since its first report in 2010

    • Henriette Rasolofoarivao
    • Johanna Clémencet
    • Hélène Delatte

    OriginalPaper 17 January 2013 Pages: 521 - 530

    

11. High-resolution predictive mapping for Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Horn of Africa

    • Samson Leta
    • Eva M. De Clercq
    • Maxime Madder

    OriginalPaper 15 February 2013 Pages: 531 - 542

    

12. Red deer (Cervus elaphus) as a host for the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Yucatan, Mexico

    • R. I. Rodríguez-Vivas
    • M. M. Ojeda-Chi
    • G. Vázquez-Gómez

    OriginalPaper 20 February 2013 Pages: 543 - 552