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If there's one thing we know about viruses, it's that they love to spread.

The novel coronavirus is happy to use us humans as its host. Other viruses fancy honeybees.

But like us, bees fight back. In the case of one particular virus called Israeli acute paralysis virus, a study shows that

honeybees actually use a form of social distancing to prevent transmitting the infection

within their own colony.

Of course, not to be outdone, the virus manipulates the bees in a way that spreads the

infection to the colony next door, the studies in

the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Honeybees live in large communities that contain

tens of thousands of related individuals in close quarters, so researchers got to wondering,

how can bees keep infections from spreading like wildfire? While a graduate student at the University of Illinois

at Champaign-Urbana, Tim Gurdna, developed an automated system for continuously tracking the

behavior of thousands of individual bees, and he watched what happened when he introduced infected

bees into the hive. Entomologist Adam Dozel, who worked with Grodot, describes what they saw. We found in this

study that within their own colony context, when they are interacting with their nestmates,

usually their sisters, infected bees experience fewer contact behaviors, fewer mouth-to-mouth

feeding contacts than bees who are not infected.

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