Review of Bee Health

Another sting in the tail for bees: Devastating wing-deforming virus could DESTROY the species

February 2, 2017

From: Daily Mail

 

• The deformed wing virus is a global virus that kills off bees 
• Belgian scientists used mini-tracking devices to study the pathogen
• Nearly 1.4 billion jobs and three-quarters of crops depend on bee pollination

By Phoebe Weston

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Now a wing-deforming virus is shortening the lifespan of wild honeybees already contending with a startlingly long list of existential threats.

Spread by microscopic mites, the microbe disrupts bees’ foraging and curtails their lives, experiments confirmed for the first time.

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