Abstract
The nutritional adequacy of each of 39 species of wood-rotting Hymenomycetes cultured on potato-sucrose agar as food for the grain mite, Acarus siro L., and the mushroom mite, Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Shrank), was assessed. Polyporus adustus Wild. ex Fr., Poria monticule Murr., P. rixosa (Karts.) Karts ., Stereum chaillettii (Pers.) Fr., Flammula gummosa (Lasch.) Fr., and F. carbonaria Fr. were the most favorable diets, and Fames Subroseus Weir and Poria subacida (Pk.) Sacc, the least favorable diets as determined by feeding, egg laying, and reproduction of both mite species. T. putrescentiae was a more efficient fungi ore than A. siro . The host range, decay type, and habitats of each fungal species and the possible ecological significance of the interaction between individual species of mites and fungi in forest ecosystems are discussed.
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