Queen bees shown to pass viruses to their offspring.

M2 Presswire, December, 2006

M2 PRESSWIRE-11 December 2006-US ARS: Queen bees shown to pass viruses to their offspring(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11122006 The first evidence that viruses can be transmitted vertically from mother queens to their offspring in honey bee colonies has been discovered by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.

ARS entomologists Yanping Chen, Jeff Pettis, Jay Evans, Anita Collins and Mark Feldlaufer in Beltsville, Md., made the discovery by testing individual queen bees and their offspring for deformed wing virus, sacbrood virus and black queen cell virus. ...