I know that if one day humanity inhabits a new planet, bees will be there. Do not ask me now for what purpose, but they will be. But that is far away. Now is the time to define which experiment are we going to run in the next human tripulated mission, this time to Mars. https://www.nasa.gov/content/journey-to-mars-overview We know little, but enough of bees in space thaks to Dan Poskevich a senior at Waverly High School back in 1984 (report from 1989) and NASA. https://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/publication/se82_17.pdf Starting from the knowledge that "the bees in the orbiter BEM fared quite well in outer space ..." whats next? Are we ready to sustain those bees for how long in outer space? *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html