A Technique for Maintaining Acarine Predator-Prey Populations

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Growth Forms ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Acarus Siro ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Cheyletus Eruditus ◽  
Prey Populations

Experiments with the growth-forms of acarine predator and prey populations require a constant supply of both species. This note describes a technique used for maintaining large numbers of Tyrophagus castellanii (Hirst) and its predator Melichares dentriticus (Berl.) and of Acarus siro L. and its predator Cheyletus eruditus (Schrank)

Biological models of two acarine predators of the grain mite, Acarus siro L.

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1312-1323 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Age Structure ◽  
Population Model ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Biological Models ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Interacting Species ◽  
Acarus Siro ◽  
Predator Attack ◽  
Cheyletus Eruditus ◽  
Blattisocius Dentriticus

A biological model of predation was developed using granular food held in closely packed screen trays to propagate the grain mite, Acarus Siro L., and two of its predators, Blattisocius dentriticus (Berl.) and Cheyletus eruditus (Schrank). Both predators limited prey abundance. Cannibalism among predators, particularly C. eruditus, was an important factor in ensuring the survival of the prey and predator populations. Cheyletus eruditus eliminated B. dentriticus when the two species were propagated in the same experimental universe. Cyclicity and dispersion of the interacting species appeared to result more from the initial age structure and from dispersion of the prey than from predator attack. A population model was used to assess the relative importance of the population components of A. siro and C. eruditus in the simplified predator–prey interactions.

Mites in dried figs of Turkey: diversity, species composition and density

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 992-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hulya Dizlek ◽  
Mehmet Karagoz ◽  
Farid Faraji ◽  
Ibrahim Cakmak
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Mite Species ◽  
Predatory Mite ◽  
Infestation Rate ◽  
Pest Species ◽  
Tyrophagus Putrescentiae ◽  
Acarus Siro ◽  
Blattisocius Tarsalis ◽  
Cheyletus Eruditus ◽  
Over Time

This study was conducted to determine mite species in dried figs in Aydin, Turkey between August 2014 and November 2016. A total of 141 dried fig samples were taken from producers’ storage, commercial storages and fig processing factories in Buharkent, Germencik, Incirliova, Kocarli, Kosk, Kuyucak, Merkez, Nazilli, Sultanhisar and Yenipazar districts. In addition, 24 dried fig samples were kept in storage for 8 months and the changes in mite species composition and their densities in stored figs were determined. As a result, 8 mite species belonging to 3 orders and 5 families were identified from the dried figs. Acarus siro L., Carpoglyphus lactis (L.), Glycyphagus destructor (Schrank), G. domesticus (De Geer) and Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) as pest species, and Blattisocius tarsalis (Berlese), B. mali (Oudemans) and Cheyletus eruditus (Schrank) as predatory mite species were found. Out of 141 samples, 133 were infested with mites and the infestation ratio was 94.3%. Tyrophagus putrescentiae was the most common pest species with an infestation rate of 72.3%, followed by C. lactis with 34.8%, A. siro, G. destructor and G. domesticus with 0.7% contamination, respectively. Carpoglyphus lactis was found to have the highest density with 10,488 individuals/kg in contaminated fig samples. Blattisocius tarsalis was the most common predatory mite species with an infestation rate of 77.3%. Blattisocius mali and C. eruditus were found in 9.2% and 4.3% of dried figs, respectively. This study showed that the dried fig samples kept in storage were always vulnerable to contamination with mites. Mite species composition and their densities also fluctuated over time.

scholarly journals Arthropod Infestation in Samples of Stored Seeds in the Czech Republic

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Kučerová ◽  
P. Horák
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Predatory Mite ◽  
Tyrophagus Putrescentiae ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Grass Seed ◽  
Acarus Siro ◽  
Cheyletus Eruditus

Twenty-one types of seed samples (mainly vegetable and grass seed) were analysed in laboratory and 60% arthropod infestation (14 Acarina, 5 Psocoptera species) was found. The seeds of beet, grass, onion, radish and lettuce were most sensitive to infestation. Acarus siro was a dominant mite pest from all aspects (frequency, abundance and seed diversity infestation), followed by Tyrophagus putrescentiae, Tarsonemus granarius and Lepidoglyphus destructor. Cheyletus eruditus was a dominant predatory mite. Lepinotus patruelis was the most frequent psocid pest.  

Testing interaction in some predator–prey populations

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sévérien Nkurunziza
Keyword(s):  
Predator Prey ◽  
Prey Populations

scholarly journals Development of Cheyletus eruditus (Schrank) (Acarina: Cheyletidae) at low temperature

1999 ◽  
Vol 35 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 14-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ždarková ◽  
P. Horák
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Predatory Mite ◽  
Temperature Threshold ◽  
Acarus Siro ◽  
Cheyletus Eruditus

Development of the predatory mite C. eruditus was examined at 12, 14 and 25°C and 75% r.h. 12°C is the low temperature threshold for development of this species where development lasts 164 days, compared with 47 days of its prey Acarus siro under the same conditions. Since repressive biological control cannot be successful under those circumstances, the predators can only be used preventively in empty stores.

scholarly journals Cyclic Competition and Percolation in Grouping Predator-Prey Populations

Games ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Lütz ◽  
Annette Cazaubiel ◽  
Jeferson Arenzon
Keyword(s):  
Predator Prey ◽  
Prey Populations

scholarly journals Stability Analysis and Harvesting Effort Predator Prey Populations Model Holling Type III with Maximum Profit

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didiharyono D.
Keyword(s):  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Equilibrium Point ◽  
Profit Function ◽  
Model Stability ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Type Iii ◽  
Hurwitz Stability ◽  
Maximum Profit ◽  
Asymptotic Stable ◽  
Prey Populations

In this paper discussed stability analysis and harvesting effort at second predator prey populations model Holling type III with maximum profit. The step this research is to determine the equilibrium point, linearize the model, stability analysis of the equilibrium point, and numerical simulation. Result shows that obtained an interior point T𝐸2∗(𝑁1∗,𝑁2∗) that asymptotic stable based on Hurwitz stability test then obtained maximum profit from exploitation harvesting effort of second predator prey populations. This second populations will always exist, even though exploited with harvesting effort done by humans. Harvesting effort of second predator-prey populations given maximum profit (𝜋𝑚𝑎𝑥) that occur on critical points of surface profit function

scholarly journals Atto-Foxes and Other Minutiae

2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Model ◽  
Simple Explanation ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Continuous Models ◽  
Number Dynamics ◽  
Stochastic Logistic Model ◽  
Age Structured ◽  
Age Structured Model ◽  
Type 3

AbstractThis paper addresses the problem of extinction in continuous models of population dynamics associated with small numbers of individuals. We begin with an extended discussion of extinction in the particular case of a stochastic logistic model, and how it relates to the corresponding continuous model. Two examples of ‘small number dynamics’ are then considered. The first is what Mollison calls the ‘atto-fox’ problem (in a model of fox rabies), referring to the problematic theoretical occurrence of a predicted rabid fox density of $$10^{-18}$$ 10 - 18 (atto-) per square kilometre. The second is how the production of large numbers of eggs by an individual can reliably lead to the eventual survival of a handful of adults, as it would seem that extinction then becomes a likely possibility. We describe the occurrence of the atto-fox problem in other contexts, such as the microbial ‘yocto-cell’ problem, and we suggest that the modelling resolution is to allow for the existence of a reservoir for the extinctively challenged individuals. This is functionally similar to the concept of a ‘refuge’ in predator–prey systems and represents a state for the individuals in which they are immune from destruction. For what I call the ‘frogspawn’ problem, where only a few individuals survive to adulthood from a large number of eggs, we provide a simple explanation based on a Holling type 3 response and elaborate it by means of a suitable nonlinear age-structured model.

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