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For decades, honeybees have been battling a deadly disease that kills off their babies (larvae) and leads to hive collapse. It\u2019s called American Foulbrood and its effects are so devastating and infectious, it often requires infected hives to be burned to the ground.\u00a0Treating Foulbrood is complicated because the disease can evolve to resist antibiotics and other chemical treatments. Losing entire hives not only disrupts the honey industry, but reduces the number of bees for pollinating plants.\u00a0Now an undergraduate student at BYU, funded by ORCA grants, has produced a natural way to eliminate the scourge, and it\u2019s working: Using tiny killer bugs known as phages to protect baby bees from infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3748","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUsing Microscopic Bugs to Save the Bees - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For decades, honeybees have been battling a deadly disease that kills off their babies (larvae) and leads to hive collapse. 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