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acarus siro

Profile

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
acari acaridae grain mite AG cheese

Shown Resistance to Active Ingredient(s)

  1. BHC/cyclodienes - Unspecified In Literature
  2. acetamiprid
  3. etrimfos
  4. pirimiphos-methyl

Citation(s) of Resistance

  1. Wilkin, D. R. (1973). Resistance to lindane in Acarus siro from an English cheese store. J. Stored Prod. Res., 9, 101-04.
  2. Szlendak, E., Conyers, C., Muggleton, J., Thind, B.B. (2000). Pirimiphos-methyl resistance in two stored product mites, Acarus siro and Acarus farris, as detected by impregnated paper bioassay and esterase activity assays. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 24, 45-54.
  3. Thind, B., Muggleton, J. (1998). A new bioassay method for the detection of resistance to pesticides in the stored porduct mite Acarus siro. Experimental & Applied Acarology, 22, 543-552.

Location(s) Where Resistance is Reported

  1. United Kingdom
  2. France -- Avignon
  3. England -- animal feed mills
  4. England -- animal feed mills
  5. England -- Lincolnshire

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United States Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research and Extension ServiceInsecticide Resistance Action CommitteeMichigan State University ExtensionWERA-60