分析了现有的叶螨个体饲养或定量饲养的方法或器具的缺陷。根据酢浆草如叶螨Tetranychina harti (Ewing)及其寄主植物红花酢浆草

（Oxalis corymbosa DC）的特点，设计、制作了一种新型饲养器，解决了常用的离体湿基叶片法中叶片表面温湿度与设定的环境条件不一致

、叶螨生活状态不自然和活体叶片法中镜检观察不方便的问题，取得了较好的效果。本设计在其他叶螨或微小昆虫的饲养中也可以作为借鉴.

Based on a review of existing methods and apparatus for individual and quantitative rearing of spider mites, a new rearing

cage, specifically designed for Tetranychina harti (Ewing) and its host plant, Oxalis corymbosa DC, was developed. The new

cage is designed and produced to overcome certain shortcomings in other rearing systems, such as a mismatch in temperature

and humidity between the leaf surface (where mites live) and the ambient, temperature and humidity of the commonlyused

rearing method of “detached leaves on wet substrates”. In addition, it alieviates the inconvenience of regular microscopic

observation of mites on fixed leaves, using liveleaf methods. The new rearing cage achieved good results in trials. The

design can be used also as reference for the rearing of other spider mites or small insects.