Abstract: This invention provides a way for drugs to kill a wide variety of otherwise invulnerable arthropods, which are protected by an unwettable plastron shield that encoats their bodies, by providing the drug with a means of egress through this plastron. Also, many arthropod-related diseases are caused by a combination of underlying factors, not just the mite. This invention allows for the concomitant use of other, non-mite-related, lipophilic drugs. This “combo” drug approach potentially allows for the treatment of the all of factors causing the disease at the same time.

Abstract: The present invention about using chemicals to interfere with the ability of certain arthropods to shield themselves from their external environment. It teaches to apply chemicals to a specialized portions of the arthropod's body that maintain a gaseous envelope that encoats, protects and extends from the arthropod's skin and, if present, breathing hole. This chemical application causes a failure of this protective envelope, making the arthropod vulnerable its external environment such as to pesticides and can also lead to problems with its ability to breathe.