Acaricide (pyrethroid) resistance in Varroa destructor
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Pesticide resistance is the ability of a pest to survive normally lethal rates of a pesticide. The ability to develop resistance to a wide range of pesticides is a widespread phenomenon among the mites, so it was almost inevitable that varroa would become resistant against the commonly used acaricides such as the pyrethroids, taufluvalinate (Apistan) and flumethrin (Bayvarol). Studies found that by comparing the concentration of a compound which causes 50% mortality in the test mite population (LC 50 ), resistant mites had increased LC 50 values of 2-fold in Israel, 11fold in the UK and from 36to 440-fold in Italy.
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