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Beekeepers have access to multiple products designed to combat mites in beehives, from vaporized forms of formic and oxalic acids that must be applied while wearing protective equipment, to potent insecticides and miticides that render any resulting honey unsellable due to their toxic residues.—Time, 3 July 2023 It is listed as a fungicide/miticide/insecticide.—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 2023 For mite control on ornamentals and most vegetables, hose off foliage, spray with approved miticide if necessary. Check leafy vegetables for caterpillars.—oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2022 Neem works as an insecticide, fungicide and miticide.—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 July 2022 Beekeepers then shifted to another miticide called amitraz, but after twenty years of use, the varroa mite is beginning to show signs of resistance with only a limited number of other options in the pipeline.—Steven Savage, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022 Neem oil is a fungicide, an insecticide and a miticide.—oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2020 Despite being entirely free of Varroa destructor—a devastating parasitic mite—at the start of the season, the hives required miticide treatments by late summer.—Alison McAfee, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2020 Be sure to use a miticide that will control eriophyid mites.—Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2020
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