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Honeybees Trained to Find Landmines

Posted by timothy on from the because-cats-were-too-smart dept.

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."

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  1. Obligatory Simpsons Quote: by taernim · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Homer:"Oh, yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?"

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    "PC Load Letter? What the $@#% does that mean?!"
  2. Re:But are they better than... by tylerdave · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Referring to this?
    Homer: "What are you gonna do? Release the dogs?! Or the bees?! Or dogs with bees in their mouth so that when they bark they shoot bees at you?"