Miticides

Examples

• Permethrin can be applied as a spray. The effects are not limited to mites; lice, cockroaches, fleas, mosquitos, and other insects are affected.
• Ivermectin can be prescribed by a medical doctor to rid humans of mite and lice infestations, and agricultural formulations are available for infested birds and rodents.
• Antibiotic miticides
• Carbamate miticides
• Dienochlor miticides
• Formamidine miticides
• Oxalic acid is used by some beekeepers against the parasitic varroa mite.
• Organophosphate miticides
• Diatomaceous earth will also kill mites by disrupting their cuticles, which dries out the mites.
• Dicofol, a compound structurally related to the insecticideDDT, is a miticide that is effective against the red spider mite Tetranychus urticae.
• Lime sulfur is effective against sarcoptic mange. It is made by mixing hydrated lime, sulfur, and water, and boiling for about 1 hour. Hydrated lime can bond with about 1.7 times its weight of sulfur (quicklime can bond with as much as 2.2 times its weight of sulfur). The strongest concentrate is diluted 1:32 before saturating the skin (avoiding the eyes), applied at six-day intervals.
• A variety of commercially available systemic and non-systemic miticides: abamectin, acequinocyl, bifenazate, chlorfenapyr, clofentezine, cyflumetofen, cypermethrin, dicofol, etoxazole, fenazaquin, fenpyroximate, hexythiazox, imidacloprid, propargite, pyridaben, spiromesifen, spirotetramat.