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Honeybees join the bomb squad

November 27, 2006/

An open-air application with released bees may be used to detect land mines. Analyzing where bees cluster using a laser device reveals the presence of mines in U.S. Army-funded field tests, says entomologist Jerry Bromenshenk of the University of Montana-Missoula http://beekeeper.dbs.umt.edu/bees/ . Other research, Bromenshenk says, finds that bee behavior changes in the presence of toxic airborne chemicals.

By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-11-26-bees-bomb-sniffing_x.htm

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