A friend wrote:
Pete do you think a similar technique will work on Varroa?

Me:
Well, the problem is “weaponizing” the technique. Beeologics has been trying to do it for more than 10 years. This is from Scientific American, April 2009:

A Miami-based biotechnology start-up company called Beeologics is developing an antiviral drug that exploits an ancient immune mechanism called RNA interference. Cells in most animals and plants use shortinterfering RNA (siRNA) segments to inhibit the formation of viral proteins; here siRNA designed to target IAPV would be fed to colonies as part of double-stranded RNA mixed into a syrup.

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