{"id":87956,"date":"2019-02-19T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/fungus-provides-powerful-medicine-in-fighting-honey-bee-viruses"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:44:11","slug":"fungus-provides-powerful-medicine-in-fighting-honey-bee-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/fungus-provides-powerful-medicine-in-fighting-honey-bee-viruses","title":{"rendered":"Fungus provides powerful medicine in fighting honey bee viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fungus-provides-powerful-medicine-in-fighting-honey-bee-viruses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In field trials, colonies fed mycelium extract from amadou and reishi fungi showed a 79-fold reduction in deformed wing virus and a 45,000-fold reduction in Lake Sinai virus compared to control colonies.<\/p>\n<p>Though it\u2019s in the early stages of development, the researchers see great potential in this research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur greatest hope is that these extracts have such an impact on viruses that they may help varroa mites become an annoyance for bees, rather than causing huge devastation,\u201d said Steve Sheppard, a WSU entomology professor and one of the paper\u2019s authors. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to see where this research leads us. Time is running out for bee populations and the safety and security of the world\u2019s food supply hinges on our ability to find means to improve pollinator health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/10\/181004100044.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/10\/181004100044.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In field trials, colonies fed mycelium extract from amadou and reishi fungi showed a 79-fold reduction in deformed wing virus and a 45,000-fold reduction in Lake Sinai virus compared to control colonies. Though it\u2019s in the early stages of development, the researchers see great potential in this research. \u201cOur greatest hope is that these extracts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}