Virus-infected honey bees more likely to gain entrance to healthy hives
Monday, April 27, 2020 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow in trespassers from other hives if the intruders are infected with the Israeli acute paralysis virus, a deadly pathogen of bees, researchers report. Their new study, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, strongly suggests that IAPV infection alters honey […]