miticide

American  

[mahyt-uh-sahyd] / ˈmaɪt əˌsaɪd /

noun

Chemistry.

1. a substance or preparation for killing mites. mite.

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miticide British  

/ ˈmɪtɪˌsaɪd /

noun

1. any drug or agent that destroys mites

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Other Word Forms

• miticidal adjective

Etymology

Origin of miticide

First recorded in 1945–50; mite ¹ + -i- + -cide

Example Sentences

After two miticide treatments, half the commercial bee colonies survived the season, compared with 65% of the Pol-line, the team reports today in Scientific Reports.

From Science Magazine

The researchers also treated some colonies with only one dose of miticide, to see whether the Pol-line bees could survive with less help from the chemicals.

From Science Magazine

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.

From Scientific American

So far, routine miticide applications are sufficient to mitigate this problem.

From Scientific American

Samuel Ramsey, who conducted the fat body research as part of his dissertation in vanEngelsdorp’s lab at the University of Maryland, says, “the holy grail is to add some sort of miticide into the feed of the bees” that could be absorbed in the fat body.

From Scientific American