> His comment "mite treatments that kill a high percentage of mites, lead
> to
> the mites building up restiance faster than a treatments that kills a
> smaller percentage."
>
> Now doing a bit of math and logic, this seems just wrong. Mathematically
> it is. No doubt.
But not biologicaly.
> If I kill 99% of something then only 1 is "restraint"
> and if I kill 80% of something then I have 20 resistant. 20 will breed
> up
> faster than 1. No way about it.
The logic is that the 20% will not all be as resistent as the 1%. So the 1%
will breed truly resistent offspring into an environmnt with no competition.
Geoff Manning
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