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  • Pyemotes Tritici (Acari: Pyemotidae), a potential biological control agent of Anagasta kuehniella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
    Experimental & Applied Acarology, 1993
    Co-Authors: W. Hoschele, L. K. Tanigoshi
    Abstract:

    The feasibility of utilizing Pyemotes Tritici as a biological control agent against the Mediterranean flour moth, Anagasta kuehniella was investigated. The results from experiments designed to assess the effect of P. Tritici on cohorts of A. kuehniella of different ages were not significant. They suggested that moth larvae were most severely affected if physogastric P. Tritici females were introduced 10 days after moth eggs were added to the experimental arena. In part II, the impact of various densities of P. Tritici on flour moths indicated that complete destruction of cohorts of 400 A. kuehniella larvae was achieved by adding about 80 female P. Tritici 10 days after the eggs were laid or 6 days after the larvae hatched. Half the above density of pyemotid mites gave inconsistent, but at times complete control.

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  • Studies on the Straw Itch Mite Pyemotes Tritici (Newport) (Acari: Pyemotidae)
    Jordan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2010
    Co-Authors: Thabet F. Allawi
    Abstract:

    For the first time in Jordan, an outbreak of the straw itch mite Pyemotes Tritici (Newport) infested houses and people in areas where buildings are surrounded by open fields of cereals, especially barley and wheat growing area in Shafa Badran (Amman district) in summer 2002, 2003 and 2004. Mites were quite annoying and people inhabiting that area complained from discomfort and dermatitis. Visiting to the area revealed that the itch mite was the problem. People were treated in the hospital with cortisone containing ointment and antihistamine compounds, orally. Patients improved, symptoms disappeared but the itch mite and dermatitis shows up from time to time as far as there are moths in the area. Life history of the mite was studied using the predator larvae Scutellista cyanea Motsch. as host. It was 6-7 days for a generation at 25 oC. Certain treatments, control and prevention methods were recommended.