I'm wondering why a thing like isopropyl alcohol would be a bad idea to use against mites.

It would kill the fukrs on contact...and evaporates into nothingness in about 3minutes time.

So for shitz n gigglez, and future reference should I ever get mites... I've isolated a branch, hosed it down with rubbing alcohol and will report back on this in a couple days with my findings.

For now...the branch went from 'drip' to 'dry' in less than 3 minutes. Doesn't appear to have had any ill-effect as of yet.