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Subject:	Re: Queens carrying DWV
From:	randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 29 May 2017 07:54:38 -0700
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> >The article does not go into what such an infection might look like in
> the field much. It seems to suggest that infected queens would probably die
> young.


You can likely assume that most honey bee femalaes (queens & workers) carry
a covert infection of DWV, normally transmitted via the fertilized egg
(drones may be "born" infected that way, but can also pick it up during
their early feeding).  There are typically no observable symptoms of such
covert infections.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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