The tomato russet mite (TRM), Aculops lycopersici (Tyron), is a significant pest of tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.), with the ability to infest various solanaceous plants and some species outside this family. This study investigated the role of black nightshade ( Solanum nigrum L.), a globally widespread weed, as an alternative host for TRM and its implications for pest dynamics. The development time, survival rate, and repr...

Quantifying basic biological data, such as the effects of variable temperatures on development and survival, is crucial to predicting and monitoring population growth rates of pest species, many of which are highly invasive. One of the most globally important pests of cereals is the eriophyoid wheat curl mite (WCM), Aceria tosichella , which is the primary vector of several plant viruses. The aim of this study was to evaluate...

Dispersal is a fundamental biological process that operates at different temporal and spatial scales with consequences for individual fitness, population dynamics, population genetics, and species distributions. Studying this process is particularly challenging when the focus is on microscopic organisms that disperse passively, whilst controlling neither the transience nor the settlement phase of their movement. In this work w...