| deformed wing virus in western honey bees (apis mellifera) from atlantic canada and the first description of an overtly-infected emerging queen. | deformed wing virus (dwv) in western honey bees (apis mellifera) often remains asymptomatic in workers and drones, and symptoms have never been described from queens. however, intense infections linked to parasitism by the mite varroa destructor can cause worker wing deformity and death within 67 h of emergence. ten workers (eight with deformed wings and two with normal wings) and three drones (two with deformed wings and one with normal wings) from two colonies infected with v. destructor from ... | 2009 | 19373971 |