UI busy with several new honey bee studies
By Greg Kline
Sunday November 19, 2006
John Dixon
University of Illinois entomology professors Charles Whitfield, left, and Gene Robinson pose in bee veils at the Bee Research Facility in Urbana, an indoor flight chamber for bees.
Honey bees probably would have been near the top of the list of species whose genes scientists wanted to map even if they weren't so sociable.
They are, after all, the premier pollinating insect on the planet and have a hand in producing billions of dollars in U.S. food crops every year, University of Illinois entomology Professor Gene Robinson said recently.
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