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British scientists have worked out exactly how a parasite has wiped out millions of honeybee colonies throughout the world. Here's our science reporter Victoria Gill.
英国科学家研究出一只寄生虫是如何灭掉全世界上百万个蜂群的。BBC科学记者维多利亚·吉尔报道。
The mite, Varroa destructor, is the single biggest killer of honeybees worldwide. The researchers worked in Hawaii where Varroa only emerged in the last five years. This gave them a unique natural laboratory where they could monitor the beginning of an infestation. This revealed that the Varroa mites spread one specific lethal strain of deformed wing virus. The virus itself is untreatable, but identifying it could mean that beehives can be screened so only those that are irreversibly infected need to be destroyed.
这种名叫瓦螨的小虫,是全世界蜜蜂的唯一头号杀手。研究者在夏威夷做了研究,瓦螨也只是过去5年间开始在这里出现。这样就给了科学家独一无二的天然实验室,用来检测感染的起源。研究表明,瓦螨能传播一种名为蜜蜂畸翅病毒的专门致命病菌。这种病毒不可治愈,但识别出这种病毒意味着,只要需要毁掉那些无可救药地感染上病毒的蜂房,就可以将之筛选出来。