The tech behind a COVID-19 vaccine is helping save bees
burst into bloom. Like avocado, apple, and peach trees, their pollen is too heavy to be carried by the wind, and so they must be pollinated by insects in order to produce nuts. But decades of industrial monocropping, combined with heavy pesticide use to keep those commodity crops healthy, have decimated native pollinators. To get the job done, beekeepers from all corners of the United States haul their hives—some 1.2 million—to California’s central valley by the semi load.
Beekeeper and researcher Liana Teigen uses a smoker to calm bees before looking for their queen. Her work is part of an ongoing trial for Greenlight Biosciences, a biotech startup that uses RNA technology to treat for common agricultural pests.Many of the young bees emerge unable to fly, afflicted with deformed wings, carrying viruses, and so depleted that they cannot fulfill their primary function of tending to the next generation of young broods.
If the varroa mite weaponizes the elegance of bee reproduction for its own procreative ends, Greenlight’s RNA solution weaponizes that weaponization by stopping the reproductive cycle in its tracks.
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