| effectiveness of eriophyid mites for biological control of weedy plants and challenges for future research. | eriophyid mites have been considered to have a high potential for use as classical biological control agents of weeds. we reviewed known examples of the use of eriophyid mites to control weedy plants to learn how effective they have been. in the past 13 years, since rosenthal's 1996 review, 13 species have undergone some degree of pre-release evaluation (aceria genistae, a. lantanae, aceria sp. [boneseed leaf buckle mite (blbm)], a. salsolae, a. sobhiani, a. solstitialis, a. tamaricis, a. thalgi ... | 2010 | 19760101 |