An Evaluation of the Straw Itch Mite, Pyemotes Tritici, for Control of the Red Imported Fire Ant

Authors

D. P. Jouvenaz, USDA
C. S. Lofgren, USDA

Date of this Version

1986

Comments

Published in The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 761-763.

Abstract

The straw itch mite, Pyemotes tritici (LaGreze-Fossat and Montagne) was proposed by Bruce and LeCato (1980) as a potential biological control agent for the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren.