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Darren O'Connell

Great to see our meta-analysis assessing treatments for the Varroa mite of honey bees out!

This has huge impacts on crop production from lost

Broadly, synthetic chemicals were effective at killing the pathogen, but had negative impacts on the bees

Biological treatments showed great promise for bee health, but were understudied

Organic chemical treatments seem on balance the best current option

sciencedirect.com/science/arti