"A wasp species in Hawaii has a virus that experts fear could easily spread to our most important crop pollinators. A new virus has been found in a species of wasp that has the potential to spread to honey bees, among the world's key crop pollinators. ..."
Read more here: Seeker.com
"There is an increasing global trend of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) affecting a wide range of species, including honey bees. The global epidemic of the single stranded RNA Deformed wing virus (DWV), driven by the spread of Varroa destructor has been well documented. However, DWV is just one of many insect RNA viruses which infect a wide range of hosts. Here we report the full genome sequence of a novel Iflavirus named Moku virus (MV), discovered in the social wasp Vespula pensylvanica collected in Hawaii. ...."
Article here: Nature.com
