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Manual of Biocontrol Agents Abbreviated Entry*

Active substance:

Amblyseius swirskii

Nomenclature

Other Names:

  • Amblyseius swirskii

Common Names:

Targets:

  • Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly, sweet potato whitefly, silverleaf whitefly)
  • Frankliniella occidentalis (western flower thrips)
  • Polyphagotarsonemus latus (broad mite, yellow tea mite, citrus silver mite)
  • Tetranychus cinnabarinus (carmine spider mite, cotton red spider mite)
  • Tetranychus urticae (two-spotted spider mite, red spider mite)
  • Thripidae
    (thrips)
  • Thrips tabaci (onion thrips)
  • Trialeurodes vaporariorum (glasshouse whitefly, greenhouse whitefly)

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Biogeography:

Indigenous to central and eastern Mediterranean.... Click here to retrieve this information.

Biological Activity

Mode of Action:

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This is an extract from the Manual of Biocontrol Agents produced by the BCPC. The manual has been substantially revised and updated to reflect the growth and maturity of the global biocontrol industry. It contains up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive information on over 200 active substances which are commercially available in products including:
  • 90+ micro-organisms
  • 15+ botanicals
  • 80+ macro-organisms
  • 31+ semiochemicals