Hungry mite may quell old world climbing fern

Agricultural Research, July, 2004 by Marcia Wood

"Now that we know some mechanical problem isn't the barrier faced by certain mites," says ARS entomologist John A. Goolsby, "we think an unknown interaction between chemicals in the mite and in ferns is an underlying factor in some mites' success."

This research is part of Crop Protection and Quarantine, an ARS National Program (#304) described on the World Wide Web at www.nps.ars.usda.gov.

John A. Goolsby is with the USDA-ARS Australian Biological Control Laboratory, 120 Meiers Rd., Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia 4068, phone 617-3214-2821, fax 617-3214-2815, e-mail john.goolsby@csiro.au.

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