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Genetic determination, transgenerational effects, and personal experience are major pathways shaping animal personalities. Among these pathways, little attention has been paid to environmental factors in the parental generation affecting offspring personality. Here we tested the effects of the maternal diet on offspring personality in the plant-inhabiting predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii. Mated females and males, whose mothers were fed during egg production on cattail pollen, spider mites, or thrips, were subjected to a battery of 3 to 5 tests each for exploration, activity, and boldness. Movement activity was assessed in the mites\u2019 familiar environment. Exploration was quantified by the latency to leave and reach novel sites or objects. Boldness was evaluated by residence in risky and benign sites. On average, offspring from spider mite-fed mothers were the most active and those from pollen-fed mothers were the shiest. 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