Feeding potential of phytoseiid predator, Neoseiulus baraki Athias-Henriot on Coconut eriophyid mite, Aceria guerreronis Keifer Sathish B.N., Radadia G.G., Shukla Abhishek N.M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari-396 450 (Gujarat), India. shuklafrs.nau@gmail.com Online published on 12 December, 2019. Abstract Experimental results showed that the overall daily prey consumption rate of individual larva, protonymph and deutonymphal stage of N. baraki were consumed 6.33 ± 0.50, 11.00 ± 0.75 and 13.45 ± 0.89 prey mites, respectively. Whereas, the consumption rate of adult male and female were 14.07 ± 0.56 and 15.91 ± 0.45 preys, respectively. The total prey consumption rate of larval, protonymph and deutonymphal stage of N. baraki were 12.65 ± 1.00, 22.00 ± 1.50 and 40.35 ± 2.69 preys, respectively. However, total consumption rate for adult male and female were 219.40 ± 5.86 and 477.97 ± 5.51 prey mites, respectively. The prey consumption rate during entire life period of male was 294.40 ± 14.09 preys, while female of 552.97 ± 14.09 prey mites. Thus, the present finding clearly suggest that N.baraki could be a highly efficient biological control agent of A. guerreronis. Top Keywords Aceria guerreronis, Neoseiulus baraki, Prey consumption. Top |