Editing Varroa destructor (section)

=== Colony collapse disorder ===
{{further|Colony collapse disorder}}
There is some evidence that harm from both Varroa mite and associated viruses they transmit may be a contributing factor that leads to [[colony collapse disorder]] (CCD).<ref name="Zakar2014"/> While the exact causes of CCD are not known, infection of colonies from multiple pathogens and interaction of those pathogens with environmental stresses is considered by entomologists to be one of the likely causes of CCD.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Potts |first1=Simon G. |last2=Biesmeijer |first2=Jacobus C. |last3=Kremen |first3=Claire |last4=Neumann |first4=Peter |last5=Schweiger |first5=Oliver |last6=Kunin |first6=William E. |title=Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers |journal=Trends in Ecology & Evolution |date=June 2010 |volume=25 |issue=6 |pages=345–353 |doi=10.1016/j.tree.2010.01.007|pmid=20188434 |bibcode=2010TEcoE..25..345P }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Watanabe |first1=Myrna E. |title=Colony Collapse Disorder: Many Suspects, No Smoking Gun |journal=BioScience |date=1 May 2008 |volume=58 |issue=5 |pages=384–388 |doi=10.1641/B580503|s2cid=85798698 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Most scientists agree there is not a single cause of CCD.<ref name="LeConte">{{cite journal |last1=Le Conte |first1=Yves |last2=Ellis |first2=Marion |last3=Ritter |first3=Wolfgang |title=Varroa mites and honey bee health: can Varroa explain part of the colony losses? |journal=Apidologie |date=May 2010 |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=353–363 |doi=10.1051/apido/2010017|doi-access=free }}</ref>