	US 12,439,922 B2
	*Plant-based chemicals for Varroa* mite control**
Zachary Huang, Okemos, MI (US); and Xinjian Xu, Okemos, MI (US)
Assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US)
Appl. No. 17/630,820
Filed by Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/044082 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 27, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/021939, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/880,153, filed on Jul. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0287307 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A01N 43/90 (2006.01); A01N 25/02 (2006.01); A01P 7/02 (2006.01)

CPC A01N 43/90 (2013.01) [A01N 25/02 (2013.01); A01P 7/02 (2021.08)]

7 Claims

1. A method comprising:

contacting one or more bees, bee larvae, bee eggs, beehives, flowering plants, or agricultural crops comprising Varroa mites with a composition comprising a carrier and picrotoxinin;

wherein the contacting with the composition inhibits growth and/or spreading of the Varroa mites.