Mailing list for the Person County Beekeepers Association, Roxboro, NC

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Read this in an article on ways to stop bombing...interesting...have a 
great day...
Mac


Sniffer bees: Under a government contract, British researchers have 
developed a portable handheld sensor that holds 36 honeybees taught with 
food rewards to recognize the odors associated with a range of 
explosives, like Semtex, C4, and gunpowder. The sensor draws in air from 
whatever is being examined and passes it over the bees. If the sample 
has a substance that the bees are trained to detect, they stick out 
their proboscises in expectation of food—and a display on the device 
captures their reaction. The bees can be trained in minutes, say the 
researchers, and their sensitivity is comparable to that of sniffer 
dogs.