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List of works by Apostolos Pekas

Ants affect the infestation levels but not the parasitism of honeydew and non-honeydew producing pests in citrus

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

Ants impact the energy reserves of natural enemies through the shared honeydew exploitation

article published in 2015

Association between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the vine mealybug (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in table-grape vineyards in Eastern Spain.

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Attract and distract: Alternative sugars disrupt the ant-hemipteran mutualism and improve biological control

Augmentative releases of the soil predatory mite Gaeolaelaps aculeifer reduce fruit damage caused by an invasive thrips in Mediterranean citrus

scientific article published on 15 February 2020

Comparison of bacterial microbiota of the predatory mite Neoseiulus cucumeris (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and its factitious prey Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Acari: Acaridae)

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Discrimination of the closely related biocontrol agents Macrolophus melanotoma (Hemiptera: Miridae) and M. pygmaeus using mitochondrial DNA analysis.

scientific article published in December 2003

Effect of Mediterranean ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on California red scale (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) populations in citrus orchards

scientific article published in June 2010

Egg Predation by Phytoseiid Predatory Mites: Is There Intraguild Predation Towards Predatory Bug Eggs?

scientific article published in 2022

Energy reserves of parasitoids depend on honeydew from non-hosts

scientific article published in 2013

Genetic variation of Marchalina hellenica (Hemiptera: Margarodidae) sampled from different hosts and localities in Greece

scientific article published in October 2003

Host size and spatiotemporal patterns mediate the coexistence of specialist parasitoids

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Impact of factitious foods and prey on the oviposition of the predatory mites Gaeolaelaps aculeifer and Stratiolaelaps scimitus (Acari: Laelapidae).

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Multiple resource supplements synergistically enhance predatory mite populations

scientific article published on 9 May 2017

Non-target effects of commonly used plant protection products in roses on the predatory mite Euseius gallicus Kreiter & Tixier (Acari: Phytoseidae).

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Optimizing aphid biocontrol with the predator Aphidoletes aphidimyza , based on biology and ecology

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

Parasitoid nutritional ecology in a community context: the importance of honeydew and implications for biological control

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Plant protection and biotremology: fundamental and applied aspects

scientific article published in 2024

Sugar provisioning maximizes the biocontrol service of parasitoids

article by Alejandro Tena et al published 4 April 2015 in Journal of Applied Ecology

The Quality of Nonprey Food Affects Cannibalism, Intraguild Predation, and Hyperpredation in Two Species of Phytoseiid Mites

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The invasive spider mite Tetranychus evansi (Acari: Tetranychidae) alters community composition and host-plant use of native relatives

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