Abstract
Brazil is the world's largest producer of ethanol and sugar produced from the sugarcane Sacharum officinarum L. However, the phytophagous mite Schizotetranychus sacharum (Acari: Tetranychidae) has occurred in population outbreaks in the sugarcane crop in different regions of the State of São Paulo. The biological development of S. sacharum has not been properly studied, as well as there i…