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The Balaustium mite (Balaustium medicagoense Meyer and Ryke) is an important pest of winter crops and pastures in southern Australia. Laboratory studies have shown B. medicagoense has a high natural tolerance to various pesticides and field chemical control failures are common. There is limited information on the biology of B. medicagoense and there are currently no pesticides registered for its control...
BACKGROUND: The redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor Tucker, is an important pest of broad‐acre farming systems in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In 2006, high levels of resistance to synthetic pyrethroids were discovered in this species in Western Australia.
RESULTS: Between 2007 and 2010, the authors monitored resistance in field populations and found it had spread considerably...
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