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Here, we evaluated strategies for the combined use of a mite-pathogenic strain of\n                    <jats:italic>Beauveria bassiana<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Neoseiulus californicus<\/jats:italic>\n                    to suppress\n                    <jats:italic>T. urticae<\/jats:italic>\n                    populations on sweet pepper plants. First, we compared the performance of both biocontrol agents, applied alone or in combination, under greenhouse conditions. A decline in\n                    <jats:italic>T. urticae<\/jats:italic>\n                    populations was observed 7 days after the release of the predatory mite (53\u201362%), the application of fungal conidia (77\u201381%), and their combined use (73\u201381%). However, in the combined treatment,\n                    <jats:italic>N. californicus<\/jats:italic>\n                    abundance was lower on plants sprayed with\n                    <jats:italic>B. bassiana<\/jats:italic>\n                    than on unsprayed plants. We then evaluated a temporal selectivity strategy in lab and greenhouse conditions, releasing the predatory mite at varying intervals after fungal application, to improve\n                    <jats:italic>T. urticae<\/jats:italic>\n                    suppression. Intervals of 6 days between\n                    <jats:italic>B. bassiana<\/jats:italic>\n                    conidia application and\n                    <jats:italic>N. californicus<\/jats:italic>\n                    release, under both laboratory and greenhouse conditions, substantially reduced the negative effects of the fungus on the predatory mite. These findings indicate that the combined use of these biological control agents requires a well-defined sequential application strategy to maximize\n                    <jats:italic>T. urticae<\/jats:italic>\n                    suppression by the predatory mite.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s10493-026-01190-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,1]],"date-time":"2026-09-01T02:24:36Z","timestamp":1788229476000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Combined use of Beauveria bassiana and the predatory mite Neoseiulus californicus to suppress Tetranychus urticae on greenhouse-grown sweet pepper"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"97","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6041-2101","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Miguel","family":"Michereff-Filho","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4756-878X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rogerio Biaggioni","family":"Lopes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0749-7921","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paloma Alves","family":"da Silva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3215-8040","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elisangela Gomes","family":"Fidelis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-8507-9928","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Atos Mendes","family":"do Vale","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,1]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"1190_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"37","DOI":"10.16955\/bitkorb.438910","volume":"59","author":"R Akyazi","year":"2019","unstructured":"Akyazi R, Soysal M, Altun\u00e7 YE (2019) The prey-stage preferences of Amblyseius swirskii Athias-Henriot and Neoseiulus californicus (McGregor) (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae), between egg and nymph stages of Tetranychus urticae Koch (Trombidiformes: Tetranychidae). 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