Experimental and Applied Acarology (2013) 60, 367-379

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D.D.M. Rezende, M.A.M. Fadini, H.G. Oliveira, C.M. Oliveira, J.W.S. Melo, R.N.C. Guedes and A. Pallini (2013)
Fitness costs associated with low-level dimethoate resistance in Phytoseiulus macropilis
Experimental and Applied Acarology 60 (3), 367-379
Abstract: Phytoseiulus macropilis Banks (Acari: Phytoseiidae) is an effective predator of tetranychid mites, but there are no data on its response to pesticides. We investigated the resistance of the predatory mite P. macropilis to the acaricides abamectin and dimethoate, and we examined the fitness costs associated with resistance. Two populations were tested: one from conventional cultivation and another from an area not commercially exploited. After the application of acaricides to the predator, we determined the lethal effects of the acaricides, the instantaneous rate of population increase (r i ), the predation on Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) and its ability to locate prey in an olfactometer. P. macropilis exhibited resistance to dimethoate only. The low level of resistance (9.4x) of the predator did not affect their ability to locate prey. However, the dimethoate resistant population was not as effective in contatining prey population when in lower density and exhibited a more pronounced decrease of r i in the presence of this acaricide, due to the reduced oviposition of the predator, a likely consequence of the different genetic background of this population.
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Database assignments for author(s): Raul Narciso C. Guedes, Marcos A.M. Fadini

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
biocontrol - natural enemies
Research topic(s) for beneficials or antagonists:
resistance to pesticides

Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial Pest/Disease/Weed Crop/Product Country Quarant.


Tetranychus urticae
Phytoseiulus macropilis (predator) Tetranychus urticae
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