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Mites: Minute Creatures Raise Mighty Concerns |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Hank Becker |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 1,517 Words, 9,989 Characters |
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Ronald Ochoa, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's expert on mites, is about to transform the 200-year-old study of mites--a science called acarology. Ochoa is a research associate at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL) of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Beltsville, Maryland. He specializes in the systematics of mites--that is, the discovery, scientific description, classification, and naming of agriculturally important mite species.
"Mites have attacked the world's vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants for millions of years," he says. "Although they remain a constant threat to economically important crops, stored grains, livestock, wildlife, and humans, only about 10 percent have been described or named."
Ochoa is also curator of mites for the National Collect...
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... themselves from the mites.
In this manner, LT-SEM technology is an exciting tool that helps reveal the structural and behavioral features of mites. It is already providing valuable new information that could be used to control some species that are agricultural pests and make others more effective as biological control agents. Article adapted from Agricultural Research, October 2000.
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