when the ratio of the population increase of the spidermite was 0.238, the relationship between the growth of phytoseiid mite (y) and prey/predator (x, i. e. food number) could be expressed directly as the hyperbolic func-tion:1/y=0.8080+0.1148/x.
Average size of food organisms eaten increased for both species with growth, because of selection by the larvae; the average size of copepodites and copepods in digestive tracts increased at a faste rate in H.
The differences in the degree of infestation of Aesculus hippocastanum by the horse chestnut leafminer in the two towns are interpreted as a result of the differences in the size of food resources.
The effects of the size of food particles on the uptake of an artificial diet by perch (Perca fluviatilis) larvae, reared in tanks for 15 days following hatching, were studied.
1. Paired adults of Trombicula akamushi var. deliensis reared in an environmentof RH 100% and 28±1℃ with sufficient food, all except a few, exhibit normal repro-ductive power. In the first year after emergence, the adult females lay 0--12 eggs dailywithout manifestation of any periodicity. Sometimes under the same physical environ-ment, the egg-laying capacity may far exceed the amount of food given. 2. An atmospheric condition of RH 100% and with sufficient amount of food,13℃ and 35℃ are probably the lower...
Cause's experiment with Paremecim caudatum is repeated on five levels of food quantity, The viable count procedure is adopted and values of r in logistic equation are computed by optimization method of enumeration. As a result, the values of r increase progressively from 0.6342 to 1,437 with food quantity, The conjecture that r never change with rate of renewing resoures by Caughley is incorrect. This experimental fact against the prevalent viewpoint about r in logistic model shows that r is maximal rate of...
The predacious efficiency of the phytoseiid mite, A. pseudolongispinosus on thespider mite, T. cinnabarinus decreased with the increasing rate of population of T.cin-nabarinus. Thus, the release ratio (predator/prey) bad to be raised in order to con-trol the prey density. when the release ratio could take control of the popolationgrowth of the spidermite, further increase of the ratio had little effect on the po-pulation growth of the prey. when the ratio of the population increase of the spidermite was 0.2...