Parasitic mites that transmit a honey bee-infecting virus may benefit from spreading the pathogen, a study shows. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal ...

The paper, by L. Wilfert at University of Exeter in Penryn, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites.' ...