With its highly evolved social structure of tens of thousands of worker bees commanded by Queen Elizabeth, the honey bee genome could also improve the search for genes linked to social behavior.
Awesome.
Queen Elizabeth has 10 times the lifespan of workers and lays up to 2,000 eggs a day. Despite having tiny brains, honey bees display honed cognitive abilities and learn to associate a flower's color, shape and scent with food, which increases its foraging ability.
Lightning knocked out the TiVo computer before the show came on. Grr. Not insane enough to buy a UPS just for a TiVo/webserver computer. Not yet. Anyway. ( 74 pics below! )