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The potential of Dicyphus hesperus Knight as a predator of greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), and two-spotted spider mites, Tetranychus urticae Koch, was assessed in the laboratory and in a tomato greenhouse. D. hesperus adults fed readily upon both pest species in the laboratory, and nymphs completed development from egg to adult on either whitefly or mites. Whitefly, however,...
A meat-based diet was tested for the rearing of the polyphagous predatory bug Macrolophus caliginosus (Heteroptera: Miridae). Several continuous generations were completed with this meat diet, without the availability of any plant material and using dental cotton rolls as an oviposition substrate. When meat-reared insects were compared with conventionally reared individuals (on tobacco plants and...
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