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Beekeeping => Other Pollinators => Topic started by: The15thMember on September 08, 2023, 05:53:05 pm

Title: Wasp with Deformed Wings
Post by: The15thMember on September 08, 2023, 05:53:05 pm

I was cleaning up some equipment a few days ago and had a couple of bees and wasps checking out my frames that were sitting out, and I noticed that one of the wasps had deformed wings.  She looked just like a bee whose wings don't develop properly, and she couldn't fly.  I have seen some deformed wings in my bees over the summer.  I wonder if the virus jumped to the wasps.

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Title: Re: Wasp with Deformed Wings
Post by: Bakersdozen on September 09, 2023, 09:53:39 am

Let's hope that's not a virus that affects wasps too. They are pollinators too.