Varroa and DWV

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There seems to be a lot of posts elsewhere on social media about deformed wings being caused by varroa feeding at the wing buds. I’ve never heard of this. Am I missing something? As far as I’m aware the wing buds are just one place the virus concentrates.
can anybody throw any light on this for me
I did find this which is worth skimming through

DWV transmission, replication and tropism
 
There seems to be a lot of posts elsewhere on social media about deformed wings being caused by varroa feeding at the wing buds. I’ve never heard of this. Am I missing something? As far as I’m aware the wing buds are just one place the virus concentrates.
can anybody throw any light on this for me
I did find this which is worth skimming through

DWV transmission, replication and tropism
I'm no expert but I thought DWV was an RNA Virus that is just vectored by the varroa - all I've ever seen is that it's the virus that caused the deformity as a result of interfering with the developing larvae's DNA ...nothing to do with physical damage ....

But I may be out of date > someone on here will know.
 
It's the vigour some of these crackpot ideas are bounced around with that annoy me. You try to answer a beginners question and somebody I know is experienced lunges in with this sort of comment.
 

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