[Pollinator] Fwd: CATCH THE BUZZ - CCD Solution? Maybe.

Wed May 26 08:39:47 PDT 2010

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CATCH  THE BUZZ  
Very  Different Microbes Acting In Concert May Be The Answer To CCD  
>From  the General Meeting Of Microbiology, San Diego, CA, May 25, 2010  
New  research from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) 
identifies a  new potential cause for “Colony Collapse Disorder” in honeybees.  
A group  of pathogens including a fungus and family of viruses may be 
working together  to cause the decline.  Scientists report their results today at 
the 110th  General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San 
Diego.  
“There  might be a synergism between two very different pathogens,” says 
Jay Evans of  the USDA Agricultural Research Service, a researcher on the 
study.  “When  they show up together there is a significant correlation with 
colony decline.”   
Beginning  in October 2006, some beekeepers began reporting losses of 30-90 
percent of  their hives. Although colony losses are not unexpected during 
winter weather,  the magnitude of loss suffered by some beekeepers was highly 
unusual.  
“Domesticated  honey bees face numerous pests and pathogens, tempting 
hypotheses that colony  collapses arise from exposure to new or resurgent 
pathogens,” says Evans.  
To  better understand the cause of these collapses, in early 2007 Evans and 
his  colleagues collected bees from both healthy and declining colonies 
across the  country but primarily from California and Florida where most of the 
commercial  pollination activity takes place. They have screened these 
samples and similar  samples from each year since then for both known and novel 
pathogens.  
They  found a slightly higher incidence of a fungal pathogen known as 
Nosema  ceranae in sick colonies, but it was not statistically significant  until 
they began pairing it with other pathogens.  
“Levels  of the fungus were slightly higher in sick colonies, but the 
presence of that  fungus and 2 or 3 RNA viruses from the family Dicistroviridae 
is a pretty  strong predictor of collapse,” says Evans.  
Nosema  are transferred between bees via the fecal-oral route.  When a bee  
initially ingests the microbes and they get to the mid-gut, they harpoon  
themselves into the gut wall and live inside the epithelial cells there.   
Evans believes that the slightly higher numbers of the fungus somehow  
compromise the gut wall and allow the viruses to overwhelm the bees.  In  colonies 
with higher Nosema numbers they found virus levels to be 2-3 times  greater 
than healthy colonies.  
While  this is a working theory and they are still in the discovery phase 
looking for  new pathogens, Evans and his colleagues are also actively 
looking for a way to  boost bee defenses against Nosema.  
“A  way to protect against Nosema might be the key for now,” says Evans.  
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