September 5, 2012

Research on hive microbes may lead to better understanding of honeybee disease




If you spot a honeybee in the UW-Madison's Allen Centennial Gardens and are wondering where it came from, look up.

There's a good chance it lives on the top floor of the nearby Microbial Sciences Building. Six floors up in bacteriologist Cameron Currie's lab, doctoral student Kirk Grubbs maintains a hive right next to his lab bench. Bees come and go through a tube that passes through the building's brick wall.