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mite
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
mite1
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n.
a minute arachnid (order or subclass Acari) that has four pairs of legs when adult, related to the ticks. Many kinds live in the soil and a number are parasitic on plants or animals.
mite2
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n.
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a small child or animal, esp. when regarded as an object of sympathy:
the poor little mite looks half-starved.
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a very small amount:
his teacher thought he needed a mite of discipline.
∎ hist.
a small coin, in particular a small Flemish copper coin of very low face value. See also widow's mite.
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adv. (a mite) inf.
a little; slightly:
all evening he's seemed a mite awkward.
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Fed; Mite and its virus threatens multi-billion grain industry
; 00-00-0000 Fed; Mite and its virus threatens multi-billion grain...now at the mercy of a virus, spread by a mite just wider than a strand of human hair...the wheat streak mosaic virus, and the mite the wheat curl mite. It's a problem for...
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Bee mite battle to cost $1m
; ...fund the eradication of the varroa bee mite have emphasised the risk the pest poses...McKenzie said the cost of eradicating the mite in the infected areas would be more than...had to be weighed against the threat the mite posed to the agricultural and fruit industries...
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Beekeepers checking for mite
; ...checking their hives today for a bee-killing mite found in South Auckland. Ministry of Agriculture...South Auckland apiary infected with the mite varroa jacobsoni . A further four infested...bees to the South Island. Fears that the mite may spread have seen the South Island quarantined...
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Parasitic Mite At Root Of Dwindling Bee Populations.
; The emergence of a parasitic mite known as Varroa jacobsoni is a prime...worth of crops each year. For years, the mite coexisted innocuously with Asian honeybees...commercial and avocational beekeeping. The mite had adapted to infest European bees...
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Bee mite menaces seed industry
; ...one of the biggest losers if the varroa mite becomes established in the South Island...for pollination will drop markedly if the mite becomes widely established. A 50 per cent...numbers has been predicted with a widespread mite infestation. Although hopes were initially...
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Mite may spell end to hobby beekeeping
; ...beekeeping in New Zealand if the varroa mite spreads and cannot be eradicated. He said...had three options: try to eradicate the mite, at an estimated cost of about $50 million...indicated he favoured trying to get rid of the mite - - which would be a world first. "We're...
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The sting: entomologists have canny plans to rob a likely invader of its chance to ravage our pollinator, the European honeybee.(controlling the varroa mite)
; AUSTRALIA is the final frontier for a tiny mite that parasitises honeybees and threatens our $1.2 billion pollination industry. The mite is poised to enter the country after incursions...in Canberra has been studying the varroa mite since 1989, to better understand its biology...
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Govt rules out mite eradication
; ...Government has capitulated to the varroa bee mite, predicting yesterday that the deadly pest...Sutton ruled out an attempt to eradicate the mite, saying the chances of success were minimal...aeroplanes." It was now inevitable that the mite, which deforms and kills bee pupae, would...
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Bee mite suspected in South Island; [No Published Headline]
; The bee-killing mite Varroa jacobsoni has now been found in...hotspots'' where infestations of the mite had been confirmed or suspected. ``The...control standards. Today's survey of the mite's spread is crucial to several key decisions...
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Biosecurity NZ gives up bid to halt advance; VARROA MITE
; ...stop the march of the destructive varroa mite is over. Biosecurity New Zealand said yesterday...attention and funding to research into the mite and helping beekeepers live with varroa...not feasible to eradicate the parasitic mite. "It has spread too far. With no significant...
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