Interesting stuff, thanks Jerry.  Sue them.

Has anyone opened up CCD victims (a sample of the remaining bees I mean rather 
than beekeepers or even harassed researchers) to look for iridescence in the fat 
body?  It seems to be a useful diagnostic aid for Apis ceranae.

best wishes

Gavin

L. Bailey and Brenda V. Ball (1978) Apis iridescent virus and “clustering 
disease” of Apis cerana.  Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 31:368-371.

Abstract

Apis iridescent virus was plentiful in each of several samples of adult 
individuals of Apis cerana from sick colonies in Kashmir and Northern India. 
Almost every bee, of those examined individually, was infected with the virus, 
which caused an easily detectable iridescence in the fat body and most other 
internal organs. The only other parasites recognized were tracheal mites, but 
most individual bees and some samples were not infested with these.

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