Sniffer bees trained in-house

摘要

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.rnBees have a good sense of smell and are able to smell out explosives and the like. Unfortunately, it takes rnhours to hand train a bee to do such a task. So UK biotech firm Inscentinel worked with ML Electronics and Realise Product Design to develop a gadget that trains groups of bees at a time.