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Agricultural Acarology
Introduction to Integrated Mite Management
Marjorie A. Hoy
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Marjorie A. Hoy
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Written by a globally prominent entomologist, Agricultural Acarology: Introduction to Integrated Mite Management provides tools for developing integrated mite management programs for agriculture, including management of plant-feeding mites, mites attacking bees and livestock, and stored products. Emphasizing the biology, ecology, behavior, and diverse methods of controlling mites, this book provides an overview of the management of agriculturally important mites using all available Integrated Pest Management (IPM) tools, including biological control, cultural practices, host-plant resistance, and pesticides.
Agricultural Acarology prepares agricultural managers to identify, manage, and contribute to the field of integrated mite management. An accompanying downloadable resource contains numerous color photographs of mites and the damage they cause, and PDFs of key publications.
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CHAPTERÂ
1
GeneralÂ
IntroductionÂ
toÂ
Acarology
Acarology
.is.the.study.of.mites,.or.Acari.or.Acarina
.
.It.is.a.specialized.ďŹeld.of.study.in.the.
larger.topics.of.invertebrate.zoology.and.entomology
.
.Because.some.mites.are.economically.impor-
tant. pests. of. agriculture. (crops,. honey. bees,. stored. food. products,. and. livestock),. are. household.
pests,.or.are.vectors.of.diseases.of.humans.and.livestock,.acarology.is.often.studied.in.entomology.
departments.
Mites.have.been.studied.for.centuries
.
.A.tick-transmitted.fever.was.mentioned.in.an.ancient.
Egyptian.papyrus.in.1550.BC
.
.Homer.mentioned.ticks.in.850.BC,.and.Aristotle.described.mites.
parasitic.
on.
locusts
.
.
Hippocrates,.
Plutarch,.
Aristophanes,.
and.
Pliny.
all.
mentioned.
mites
.
.
Until.
about. 1660,. mites. were. referred. to. as. âlice,â. âbeesties,â. or. âlittle. insects
.â
.The.terms.âAkariâ.and.
âmiteâ.began.to.be.used.about.1650
.
.Linnaeus.used.the.generic.name.
Acarus
.in.the.ďŹrst.edition.of.
the.
SystemaÂ
Naturae
.and.named.the.type.of.the.genus.
AcarusÂ
siro
.(a.grain.mite).in.1758
.
Acarology.was.an.active.ďŹeld.in.Europe.in.the.late.19th.and.early.20th.centuries
.
.Beginning.
with.World.War.II,.an.increased.awareness.of.the.economic.importance.of.mites.and.ticks.arose.in.
the.United.States.and.elsewhere.due.to.a.concern.about.diseases.transmitted.by.ticks.and.chiggers.
(which.transmit.scrub.typhus)
.
.After.the.war,.with.the.increased.use.of.synthetic.organic.pesticides.
such.as.DDT.to.control.a.wide.array.of.insect.and.mite.pests,.spider.mites.became.much.more.seri-
ous.agricultural.pests.around.the.world,.and.applied.agricultural.acarology.developed.(Baker.and.
Wharton.1952,.Jeppson.et.al
.
.1975)
.
Mites.are.not.just.agricultural.pests,.however
.
.They.are.of.intrinsic.interest.to.zoologists.and.
ecologists.because.they.rival.the.insects.in.their.numbers.and.diversity
.
.Admittedly,.mites.usually.
are.less.obvious.due.to.their.small.size
.
.Most.mites.are.0
.08
.to.1
.0
.millimeters.(mm).in.length;.how-
ever,.some.ticks.and.red.velvet.mites.may.reach.lengths.of.10.to.20Â mm
.
.We.do.not.know.just.how.
diverse.or.abundant.mites.are.due.to.the.fact.that.the.taxonomy.of.mites.is.50.to.100.years.behind.
that.of.the.insects
.
.This.is.because.mites.are.so.small.that.they.require.rather.specialized.methods.
and.equipment.to.study.them,.and.if.they.are.not.of.economic.importance.they.often.are.overlooked
.
.
It.is.not.unusual.for.new.species,.genera,.and.even.families.of.mites.to.be.discovered,.and.collecting.
in.distant.or.exotic.regions.is.not.required.to.discover.new.mite.taxa
.
.By.1950,.about.30,000.species.
of.mites.in.1700.genera.had.been.described
.
.As.of.1999,.approximately.40,000.species.of.mites.had.
been.described,.and.estimates.of.unnamed.species.range.from.0
.5
.to.1.million.species.(Walter.and.
Proctor.1999)
.
Some.taxonomists.have.suggested.there.may.be.more.mite.species.than.insect.species.because.
mites.are.smaller.and.able.to.occupy.smaller.niches.than.insects
.
.Certainly,.they.outdo.the.insects.
in.the.diversity.of.habitats.they.lay.claim.to.because.of.their.small.size
.
.Mites.have.colonized.all.of.
the.habitats.that.insects.have.colonized;.some.are.terrestrial.and.some.aquatic.in.freshwater,.and.
some.are.even.found.in.the.oceans.(Evans.1992,.Houck.1994,.Proctor.2006,.Krantz.and.Walter.
2009).
.Mites.are.freeliving.or.are.parasitic.on.plants.and.on.vertebrate.and.invertebrate.animals;.for.