Explore: Mites As Biological Control Agents

Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals

family of predatory mites which feed on thrips and other mite species. They are often used as a biological control agent for managing mite pests. Because of

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against grain mites and reptile mites. Whereas most mite treatments are based on synthetic chemicals, predatory mites are used as a biological method of preventing

insects. Several species have been introduced outside their range as biological control agents, with varying degrees of success. Some species are pests themselves

symptoms of scabies are due to an allergic reaction to the mites. Often, only between 10 and 15 mites are involved in an infection. Scabies most often spreads

genera of mites, which live as plant parasites, commonly causing galls or other damage to the plant tissues and hence known as gall mites. About 3,600

headache, joint pain, fever and nausea. The mite is being investigated as a potential biological pest control agent for stored product pests; its high rate

diseases. The scientific discipline devoted to the study of mites is called acarology. Mites are not a defined taxon, but the term is used for two distinct