Honeybees Trained to Find Landmines

KingMeer writes "A group of researchers at the University of Montana have trained honeybees to seek out landmines. Apparently they are much more effective than dogs, making them a practical tool for finding the 110 million landmines worldwide."

Comments

I was already paranoid when I went to the airport

[GOD_ALMIGHTY]

I think I'm going to stop flying altogether if I have to get checked by bees.

What happens if you swat one of them? They try and charge you with killing a federal officer if you kill a police dog, so what about the bomb-sniffing bees? Would I find myself in the federal pen for smashing a bee?

On a more serious note, what if the bees all swarm over the bomb-disposal equipment instead of the landmines? The article says that they are just looking for DNT particles, in the parts per trillion range, so wouldn't this be present on the bomb-disposal equipment?