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RESOURCES A Sting of Love Gene Robinson was sick of picking
grapefruit. Robinson was 18 years old, volunteering on a kibbutz
in Israel, and he decided to look for something else to do.
Along with grapefruit, this kibbutz was also a commercial honey
producer. How about working with bees instead? "Why not?"
Robinson wondered at the time. Can't be much worse than picking
grapefruit, he thought, and he ventured over to the hives. It
was love at first sight, recalls Robinson, who is now a
biologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In
less than 2 weeks he developed a lifelong infatuation with the
honeybee. Order in Chaos Robinson knew nothing about the
honeybee, or about bees in general, but between the stings and
the swarms he realized that things were not what they seemed. He
saw chaos in the hive. Bees were coming and going, without
apparent order or meaning. But like so many closets that are a
complete mess to someone else, if you know