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Volume 14 Part 2 Article 8
Year 1995
Title: Arctoseius semiscissus (Berlese 1892) (Acarina: Accidae) foretic on mushroom sciarid flies in Poland - A possible agent for biological control of sciarids in mushroom houses
Author: J. Dmoch

Abstract:

Observations made in 1992 and 1993 in three mushroom houses near Warsaw have showed that Arctoseius semiscissus (Berlese 1892) (Acarina: Ascidae), foretic, predatory mite was very common. Laboratory experiments conducted on material collected there proved very high mortality rate among the eggs and larvae - the offspring of females covered by A.semiscissus. This mite probably has been the reason for almost entire disappearance of sciarids within the observation area.

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