Periodic Reporting for period 2 - BEE NATURAL (A sustainable future for honeybees by unravelling the mechanisms of natural disease resistance)

The ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, together with its associated honeybee viruses that it vectors, in particular Deformed wing virus (DWV), remains unarguably the leading cause of honeybee colony mortality world-wide and the main cause of the near complete eradication...