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APRD Survey

Dear Users:

We value your contribution to and use of the Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database (APRD).

The APRD Team is conducting a Survey to gauge users experiences, our objective is to determine how the database enhances research, and to allow for users to provide feedback, suggestions and requests for potential improvements. Please take the anonymous survey using this link: Link to Survey

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David Mota-Sanchez
Arthropod Resistance Database Director

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. etrimfos
  3. pirimiphos-methyl (#2)

Citation(s) of Resistance

# Citation
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

# Location
1 154 -- United Kingdom -- 4
2 2774 -- England -- animal feed mills -- 4
3 2775 -- England -- animal feed mills -- 4
4 3434 -- England -- Lincolnshire -- 4

Other Reference

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