Until 1985 discussions of pesticides and honey bee toxicity in the USA were focused on
pesticides applied to crops and the unintentional exposure of foraging bees to them. The …

Ticks are blood-feeding ecto-parasites that have a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and
subtropical regions of the world. Ticks cause economic losses in the form of reduced blood …

Abstract The Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus tick is the main ectoparasite of cattle in
tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Resistance to chemical acaricides has become …

Esterases are a group of enzymes that are reportedly associated with acaricide resistance in
Riphicephallus (Boophilus) microplus. A comparative analysis was made of the esterase …

Insecticides are enormously important to industry requirements and market demands in
agriculture. Despite their usefulness, these insecticides can pose a dangerous risk to the …

In this study, honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) were exposed to LD 05 and LD 50 doses of five
commonly used acaricides for controlling the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. LD 50 values …

BACKGROUND Laboratory selection is often employed in resistance mechanism studies
because field‐derived populations commonly do not have high enough resistance for such …

The organophosphate (OP) resistance status in Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus ticks
collected from seventeen districts located in the northwestern Indian state, Punjab were …

Chemical control based on the use of pyrethroid and organophosphate compounds has
selected resistant genotypes in populations of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus. Point …

Acaricide resistance status of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus and Hyalomma
anatolicum ticks against deltamethrin and diazinon was assessed in Hisar (Haryana) and its …