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Honeybees trained to hunt mines in Croatia


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Croatian researchers have been training honeybees to hunt down the location of unexploded landmines.

Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.

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Incredible, i mean i haven't heard of this and I'm from Croatia...

It is indeed a problem, for all people, from hikers to regular folks living in the "outback"

This bee thing sounds interesting enough

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Boris its old news in our country, you probably missed it.

Last year it was on national TV.

Recently I even open thread on UM.

I hope bees become useful... As they didnt. But you see where Im going.

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Huh, I realise the "training", associating food with TNT. but I guess I didn't know bees had such a keen sense of smell.

I thought that they were primarily attracted by the color(like yellow or pink),or even ultraviolet reflected light from plant petals.

I learn something new every day.

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Boris its old news in our country, you probably missed it.

Last year it was on national TV.

Recently I even open thread on UM.

I hope bees become useful... As they didnt. But you see where Im going.

Guess i'm terribly uninformed hah :yes:

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I'm sure my next question is either for a new topic, or, a continuation of a topic already posted.

But, it seems to me(from what I've read elsewhere) that bees are vital to the propagation of plants and hence, in some way, our own human life.

I know that we all hate bee stings, yet bees seem so potentially vital to human survival in the long run.

Having heard that there are diseases and such which are reducing bee population, any suggestions?

Or a pointing to a relative sub-forum here?

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I'm sure my next question is either for a new topic, or, a continuation of a topic already posted.

But, it seems to me(from what I've read elsewhere) that bees are vital to the propagation of plants and hence, in some way, our own human life.

I know that we all hate bee stings, yet bees seem so potentially vital to human survival in the long run.

Having heard that there are diseases and such which are reducing bee population, any suggestions?

Or a pointing to a relative sub-forum here?

once I started a thread / poll about it.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=229267

Guess i'm terribly uninformed hah :yes:

its easy to skip among 1000 news every day.

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SO THAT'S WHERE ALL THE ****ING BEE'S HAVE GONE YA SNEAKY MUNGRELS :P

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We have a unexplainable global bee shortage and you fools are trying to blow them up with landmines.

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Ok I'm done :P

But really? who exactly was going out of their way to use bees for landmines. Why not thermal imagery wouldn't that be better to detect?

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SO THAT'S WHERE ALL THE ****ING BEE'S HAVE GONE YA SNEAKY MUNGRELS :P

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We have a unexplainable global bee shortage and you fools are trying to blow them up with landmines.

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Ok I'm done :P

But really? who exactly was going out of their way to use bees for landmines. Why not thermal imagery wouldn't that be better to detect?

I think that they have difficulties with some types of mine.

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WHAT THE F?!?

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