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Keywords: spider mites, Tetranychus mcdanieli, phytoseiid predator Metaseiulus occidentalis, life history, development curves, constant temperatures, variable temperatures, effect of temperature on population development, development curves were nonlinear and asymmetric over the temperature range commonly encountered in the field