>
> >Obviously Monsanto sees an opportunity here and considering that the
> honey bee
> was one of the first organisms sequenced, maybe they see some almost free,
> low hanging
> fruit to add to their portfolio of proprietary life forms.
>

Do you really think that Monsanto envisions that there would be any
substantive return on investment on a patented bee?  It would need to be
propagated by instrumental insemination, so there would be a very limited
market.  This discussion is starting to sound like the Twilight Zone!

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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