Re: [DIYbio] Re: Transgenic CCD resistant honeybee - need help

Keeping the hive indoors, with a tube to the outside, is not sufficient.  Your GMO bees should be kept in a completely enclosed facility with its own food source, until environmental and food supply safety are proven.  Colonies do "abscond" sometimes--all the bees including the queen leave and start a new hive...

I'm not an expert on the legality of all this. But it's certainly unethical to expose the environment to untested GMOs with a potential competitive advantage against native species.  Like I said previously, this is a cool project idea, but you may need to evaluate whether you have the resources to do this safely and legally.

Mike



On Thursday, May 8, 2014 10:25:49 AM UTC-4, Mega [Andreas Stuermer] wrote:

Sounds good. Where I live you get in prison even for GM engineering of bacteria outside a governmentally certified lab, so I outsource the bee insemination job to the US. 

I'll forward your idea, that may be a good idea to keep them contained ;) 

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:48 PM, 'SC' via DIYbio <diy...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Mega,

Do you live in a place where you can keep bees yourself? As this may be a lengthy process (making a GMO eukaryote usually is), you'd have good control of what was introduced and when.  I used to keep bees (decades ago), and it's not difficult, but you need appropriate land and plant growth for them.  Failing that you might want to consider an "observation hive", like this:

http://www.pigeonmountaintrading.com/Category/1-22638-observation-hives.aspx

These are kept indoors with a tube leading to the outside.

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