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thundara · 3972 days ago · link · · parent · post: Suspicious Virus Makes Rare Cross-Kingdom Leap From Plants to Honeybees | The Artful Amoeba, Scientific American Blog Network
Virology isn't really my thing, I just happen to know a few random facts and that one line put me on the offensive. I can toss out ideas, but they pretty much ideas killing a lot of bees or burning a lot of tobacco, and I have no idea how effective they would actually be. It's possible that the virus won't find an optimal infectivity to lethality ratio and just die out as it kills too many of its hosts. It's possible that may mean every bee on the plant. Maybe someone will find a viricide that doesn't harm bees. But who knows...like I said, I'm not a virologist :(Anyway, you seem to know something about viruses.
If that's so, how might bees be prevented from getting this virus?