Keeping honey bees healthy, especially through the fight against the varroa mite, is a priority for the global beekeeping industry.
The use of acaricides since many decades resulted to the apparition of resistances and a waste of efficacy of the active substances. That is why, actually, one of the apiarian problems is to estimate and to limit the developing resistances of varroa mite to the synthetic acaricides. A new tool to diagnose varroa population resistance status would allow adaptation of acaricide treatment and so, limit the resistances.