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>From: randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Dec 5, 2006 8:45 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Bees and Detection of Harmful Things
>
> Excuse me for the interjection, but in regards to Randy Oliver's comments about waving something in front of hives; someone needs to train K-9 that could be walked through yards at night that could indicate mites, AFB, nosema infection and perhaps AHB signature sent.  One could then mark such indicated colonies for inspection and treatment.  

Teaching bees would seem to me to require breeding, workers can not live long enough in the field to be taught.  Therefore a strain of bees inclined to be drawn to a chemical signature would be required.  If all that work is to be done it would further seem to me to be better handle by remote robotics and existing sensors which need neither breeding or training.  So i am guessing that there is a special training method and since (if something of this nature is possible) it is a national security item, i don't even want to know.

Chrissy 

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