Table 4.

Spearman's correlations of pathogen abundances in single forager bees calculated from log‐transformed concentration values. Zero values and measured concentrations below 1,000 target molecules/100 ng RNA were excluded from the analysis. Correlation values based on less than n = 50 data pairs are not shown. Significant (*p < .05) and highly significant correlations (**p < .001) are printed bold. The robustness of the correlations was tested by repeating the calculations with regional sub‐selections of the data. Correlations that were significant in all sub‐selections of the dataset are marked with a gray shades

	ABPV	CBPV	DWV A+B	BQCV	LSV	Frischella perrara	Paenibacillus larvae	Melissococcus plutonius	Nosema ceranae
CBPV
DWV A+B	−0.04
BQCV	0.05	0.25*	0.13**
LSV		−0.09	−0.12	0.20**
F. perrara	0.04	−0.12	0.06	0.06	−0.14*
P. larvae			0.00	0.19**	−0.20	0.06
M. plutonius			0.05	−0.31**	−0.16	0.10	0.04
N. ceranae	0.04	−0.16	−0.02	0.16**	0.05	0.08*	−0.04	−0.07
Crithidia/Lotmaria	−0.07	0.05	0.14*	0.25**	0.19**	−0.02	0.04	−0.16	−0.07

Abbreviations: ABPV, Acute bee paralysis virus; BQCV, Black queen cell virus; CBPV, Chronic bee paralysis virus; DWV, Deformed wing virus; LSV, Lake Sinai virus; SBV, Sacbrood virus.