Prof. Gard Otis checking bees in early spring at the University of Guelph apiary. Gard was a student of Prof. "Chip" Taylor and worked with Africanized bees as a student. Since then he has worked on a variety of research topics, from the biology of newly re-classified Apis species, to breeding bees for tracheal mite resistance. He has an extensive collection of Asian Apis species. March, 1999.
