![]() ![]() persimilis females under limited food on whole plants. persimilis under limited food on interconnected detached leaflets, and (2) groups of adult P. We conducted two experiments with (1) groups of juvenile P. persimilis is highly specialized on herbivorous spider mite prey such as the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae, which is patchily distributed on its host plants. Based on the assumption that in group-living animals social familiarity allows to optimize the performance in other tasks, as for example predicted by limited attention theory, we assessed the influence of social familiarity on prey patch exploitation, patch-leaving, and inter-patch distribution of the group-living, plant-inhabiting predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis. ![]()
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