Bomb squad.Honeybees have a "nose" for nectar. But their keen sense of smell also makes them good bomb sniffers. Scientists are training these insect detectives to find bombs by exposing them to the smell of explosives. The bees' antennae can detect minute amounts of explosive particles <onlyinclude> This is a list of particles in particle physics, including currently known and hypothetical elementary particles, as well as the composite particles that can be built up from them. , says Tim Haarmann, an entomologist who studies insects Insects See also ants; bees; biology; butterflies; zoology. acarophobia a fear of itching or of the mites or ticks that cause it. aeroscepsy, aeroscepsis perception by means of the air, said to be a function of the antennae of insects. at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National . After getting a whiff of explosive scent, the bees-in-training receive sugared water. They drink this treat with their tube-like proboscis proboscis elongated, flexible feeding apparatus, formed of the fused mouthparts, in some insects. . This training teaches the bees to stick out their proboscises whenever they smell an explosive-alerting trainers that a bomb is nearby. The bees are quick studies. Haarmann says he can train 50 honeybees in about two hours. UnBEElievable! |
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