Slides 55 & 56


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55

A predacious nematode of the family Mononchida

Photo by B. A. Jaffee

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56

The soil mite Lasioseius subteraneus (Mesostigmata: Ascidae), an aggressive predator of nematodes that colonizes greenhouse cultures of root-knot nematodes.  This mite has a generation time of less than 1 week at 28 ºC and can lay up to 18 eggs per day when feeding on nematodes

Photo by D. E. Walter