Bees stick their tongues out at bombs (Image: Sipa Press/Rex Features)
IT HAS long been thought that bees could perform the same tasks as a sniffer dog, if only they could be readily trained. Now a consortium of UK companies thinks they have the answer: a bee “hotel” that turns resident insects into reliable sniffers.
Bees have a good sense of smell and are able to smell out explosives and the like. Unfortunately, it takes hours to hand train a bee to do such a task. So UK biotech firm worked with and …
