On February 12, 2005, all “bee experts and bee lovers” lost one of the worlds most gentle, easy-going and genuinely nice honey bee researchers, Professor Antonio Carlo Garros Stort. “Stort”, as he was fondly named by all who knew him personally, dedicated almost all his life to the study of the aggressiveness of Africanized bees, despite the fact that he was extremely allergic, and that the bees could end his life with only a few stings. He always had an anti-allergic medicine in his pocket, especially when he had to carry out aggressiveness tests with his bees. Professor Antonio Carlos Stort was born in Mogi Mirim, State of São Paulo, on December 19, 1939, son of Antonio Stort and Maria Helena Garros Stort. He is survived by his wife Professor Maria Neisa Silva Stort, a daughter, a dentist, Adriana Maria Stort, and two sons, chemical engineer Carlos Eduardo and materials engineer Vinicio José. Stort did his undergraduate studies in Mogi Mirim and graduated in 1961 as a biologist (Natural History Course) at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Rio Claro, today the Biosciences Institute of the University of the state of São Paulo (UNESP), in Rio Claro, São Paulo State. I met Stort for the first time in 1962 when he attended a Natural History Congress in Curitiba, Paraná state, as a graduate student of the bee geneticist Professor Warwick Estevam Kerr.  Read more. . . .