Improve colony survival: New data to fight against honey bee viruses

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Join us as Dr. Schroeder describes the use of new molecular tools to unravel the complexity of co-infections in honey bees that together impact the way we interpret current PCR based surveillance data.
Declan Schroeder, is Associate Professor of Veterinary Population Medicine at the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Building, University of Minnesota.
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations in many parts of the world are experiencing considerable losses annually.
A combination of many factors is responsible for honey bee decline. In particular, the combination of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor (Varroa) and the viruses the mite vectors are major drivers of colony mortality. These include the viruses from Deformed wing virus master variants (DWV-A and DWV-B), Acute bee paralysis virus (ABPV), and its variant Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV). More recently, two other viruses are starting to increase in prevalence, namely Sacbrood virus (SBV) and Lake Sinai virus (LSV).
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Symptoms and correllations - if you treat symptoms you aren't solving the problem. 21 pathogens in a hive of CCD doesn't mean any one of those pathogens caused CCD,; those pathogens are only symptoms and not the cause, it was more likely something like chemicals sprayed on the available forage. So looking for treatment to correlate with symptoms is not going to eliminate the problem. Eventually more and more pathogens will feast on more bees. Breeding bees for genetics to withstand the pathogens is ok but the wrong approach to solve the problem,