yeah but you are not supposed to use provent a mite on the BP.
so you use the poison to kill all mites in or around the enclosure, and about the ones on the snake, most will drown, some will crawl off the snake and into the enclosure where remaining traces of provent-a-mite kill them, and some parts of the snake will come into direct enough contact to the provent-a-mite residue that mites get killed.
basically you drive down the numbers of the mites on the bp to such a low level that the population just fizzles out. maybe because you get lucky and all female mites or all male mites die out, or you keep killing them before they reach sexual maturity. thats good enough, extinct is extinct. keep killing off the subadult and adult mites and population will sooner or later completely collapse.
i would not use something toxic directly on the snake skin, if you use anything other than extremely diluted soap water, have it be a mild disinfectant that is safe to use on a snake like a diluted betadine solution, not a poison. worst case scenario, when things go wrong with a mild disinfectant, is skin irritation / skin damage. if you use poison on the snake, if things go wrong, worst case is a dead snake. if you follow the instructions of provent-a-mite, the instructions say you are not supposed to use it directly on the snake.
and if the instructions say one thing, which is to not use it directly on the reptile, and someone on a forum says something else, i think the safe thing is to follow the instructions to the letter.
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