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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. Sugar is the reward by GuyMannDude · · Score: 5, Informative

    Scientists have found that it takes less than two hours to use sugar-water rewards to condition a hive of honeybees to eschew flowers and instead hunt for 2,4-dinitrotoluene, or DNT, a residue in TNT and other explosives, in concentrations as tiny as a few thousandths of a part per trillion.

    Taken from a previous NYT article (mirror 1, mirror 2)

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