News item: Univ of Aberdeen and DEFRA have shown proof of concept of using
RNAi against varroa, by using it to "knock down" a critical metabolic
enzyme.

In a radio interview, the researcher, Dr Alan Bowman, suggested that the
dsRNA might be able to be fed in syrup or pollen supplement, and make its
way to the mites.

Free download of paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933685/

We owe a note of thanks to Dr Jay Evans of the Beltsville Lab for his
foresight in sequencing the varroa genome, which allowed for this sort of
application.

Randy Oliver
Thanks to Kim Flottum for bringing this to my attention.

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