A. Koike et al., SPECIES AND HABITAT SURVEY OF PHYTOSEIID MITES ON JAPANESE PEAR TREESUSING COTTON TRAP, Nippon Oyo Dobutsu Konchu Gakkai-Shi, 42(1), 1998, pp. 21-23
Many predacious phytoseiid mites were found in silk nests of other org
anisms on Japanese pear trees. A simple physical trap (Cotton trap), m
odeling a spider's nest, was devised. This trap trapped many phytoseii
ds when it used on the pear trees.