Flowers as viral hot spots: Honey bees (Apis mellifera) unevenly deposit viruses across plant species.
Womens Romper RNA viruses, once considered specific to honey bees, are suspected of spilling over from managed bees into wild pollinators; however, transmission routes are largely unknown.A widely accepted yet untested hypothesis states that flowers serve as bridges in the transmission of viruses between bees.Here, using a series of controlled expe