A biotech firm says the U.S. has approved its vaccine for honeybees
The disease is caused by Paenibacillus larvae, a type of bacteria that affects the bee's larvae. The vaccine contains some of that bacteria, and it will be mixed in with the royal jelly, which worker bees secrete from their heads and then feed to the queen and larvae. When the queen eats the jelly, she will ingest fragments of the vaccine that will grant her offspring some immunity against the bacteria.
The vaccine is not genetically modified and can be used in organic agriculture, Dalan Animal Health said.
Pollinators are responsible for one of every three bites of food we take, according to the agency, but their numbers have been declining for many years.