Abstract: Field studies were conducted to compare the spatio-temporal dynamics of small brown planthopper (SBPH)， Laodelphax striatellus (Fallén) and their important natual enemy spiders by using the geo-statistical methods. By fitting the models of semivariogram of them and analyzing the patterns, it was found that the nugget range of macropterous SBPH and larval SBPH were approaching to that of spiders, as well as the range of structural intensity, but the nuggets of SBPH were not approaching to that of spiders, neither the structural intensity. The spatial pattern of larval SBPH and spiders were aggregation, but that of macropterous SBPH was random sometimes. We drawn the predicted surface maps with the Ordinary Kriging method and illustrated in the time order to provide a visible presentation of the spatio-temporal distributions. By analyzing those maps, we found that the spatial distribution of spiders in the paddy field was similar to that of macropterous SBPH and larval SBPH, and was more similar to larval SBPH, and showed an obvious pursuing phenomenon between them, while the pursuing had a close relationship with the temporal dynamics of SBPH number. But the pursuing phenomenon was complex and influenced by factors such as the weather, the environmental conditions in paddy fields, other enemies of SBPH and other foods of spiders.

Key words: Paddy field, Laodelphax striatellus, spiders, spatio-temporal dynamics, geostatistics