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Flying honey bees adsorb airborne viruses
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Flying honey bees adsorb airborne viruses Bruce Lighthart1  , Kevin R. S. Prier1 and Jerry J. Bromenshenk2 | (1) | Microbial Aerosol Research Laboratory LLC, 10975 Doll Road, Monmouth, OR 97361, USA |
| (2) | Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA |
Received: 23 June 2004 Accepted: 22 December 2004 Abstract Tethered honey bees (Apidea Apis melifera) coaxed to fly in a miniature wind tunnel for a specific time interval, adsorb a virus (i.e., bacteriophage MS2) aerosol at a linear rate of 1% of the aerosol concentration for every 6.73 pC of electrostatic charge on the bee. Keywords adsorption - airborne - bacteriophage MS2 - electrostatic charge - virus
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