Comparison of communities of stored product mites in grain mass and grain residues in the Czech Republic

Abstract

In storage facilities one can find grain either in stored grain mass or in grain residues in the store corners or machinery. Although it is claimed that grain residues are serious pest reservoirs since they harbor numbers of stored product arthropods and

Keywords

• storage
• grain
• infestation
• grain residues
• canonical correspondence analysis
• mite communities
• tetranychus-urticae acari
• host-plant condition
• storage mites
• habitats
• allergy
• wheat
• population
• prevalence
• diseases
• insects