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Mite Helps a Bee-Killing Virus Spread (1 of 3)

Caption: Beekeeping on Kauai, Hawaii, an island still free of the Varroa mite. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 8, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.J. Martin at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, UK, and colleagues was titled, “Global Honey Bee Viral Landscape Altered by a Parasitic Mite.”

Credit: Photo taken by S. Martin

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