Honeybees can learn to recognise human faces, studies show
Honeybees can be trained with sugar rewards to recognise human faces and can later pick out the same face from new angles and among unfamiliar faces. A 2010 study in the Journal…
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Honeybees trained to detect land mines in Croatia
In 2013, Croatian scientists trained honeybees to detect the scent of TNT, aiming to help locate land mines from the Balkan wars. Professor Nikola Kezic and his team at Zagreb University conditioned…
Florida Student’s CO2 Device Cuts Varroa Mites Across 60 Bee Colonies
A 17-year-old Florida student, Aakash Manaswi, has developed a carbon dioxide device to control Varroa destructor mites, a major threat to honeybee colonies. The Times of India reports that his 10-week trial…
