Against Varroa jacobsoni

Besides thymol, other terpenes have been tested for their toxicity against Varroa jacobsoni. Imdorf et al. determined in vitro the effective miticidal air concentrations, but with minimal effects on the bees as follows 5-15 pg/litre air for thymol, 50-150 pg/litre for camphor and 20-60 pg/litre for menthol 1,8-cineole was too toxic for honey bees [86], Another interesting paper considered the efficacy of different isomers of menthol on Acarapis woodi [87]. The natural crystals obtained from the plant, synthetic crystals and the L-form gave more than 96% mite mortality, while the D-form crystals only a 37% mortality. 

A large number of synthetic pyrethroids with a variety of aromatic and aliphatic fluorine substituents have been commercialized, and will be discussed in the sections on fluorinated ether, aromatic fluorine, and fluorinated aliphatic groups, respectively. Fluvalinate (Mavrik ) [50] is a trifluoromethylphenyl pyrethroid, initially introduced by Zoecon (later Zandos Ag) and later replaced by tau-fluvalin-ate, which contains two of the four isomers of fluvalinate. Tau-fluvalinate (Apistan ) is a synthetic pyrethroid used for the topical treatment of honeybees against the parasitic mite Varroa jacobsoni. Mite resistance to tau-fluvalinate has been reported [51],... 

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