| abstract |
A prophylactic and/or therapeutic food composition for control of deformed wing vims (DWV) in bees and/or bee larvae, and methods of using and making the same. Bee feed compositions comprising anti-DWV antibodies dispersed in an edible base composition. Use of recombinant VP1, VP2, VP3, and/or VP4 capsid proteins, or VLPs of deformed wing vims (DWV) to passively generate anti-DWV antibodies in chicken egg yolks, and use of such anti-DWV antibodies for prophylaxis or treatment of deformed wing virus in the bees and/or larvae. |