UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECT OF DEFORMED WING VIRUS AND IMIDACLOPRID INSECTICIDE ON COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER

It is essential to recognize that bees and other pollinators play a crucial role in ecosystems. Indirectly or directly, all human food sources rely on bees for survival. However, in recent years, there has been a concerning decline in honeybee colonies due to various factors such as pesticides, diseases, and poor nutrition. This phenomenon is referred to as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). The effects of exposure to the imidacloprid insecticide and DWV infection on the Apis mellifera brain were examined in this study using publicly available RNA-seq datasets.