> tests seem to indicate that honey bees
> are not more sensitive to smells than we are

I would think that Jerry B. would have some hard data to put some numbers
and bounds on exactly how much more sensitive bees are to odors than humans.

I cannot smell a landmine, Jerry can train bees to find them at a distance
from the hive before them explode.  He has mentioned those projects more
than once.

I cannot smell a flower at anything more than point-blank range, bees
clearly can, as A. Wenner and others have shown repeatedly.

My wife Joanne, on the other hand, can smell even a minor case of foulbrood
the moment she exits our car in the driveway of a suburban home - far
less-than one-frame cases of AFB.
She did this multiple times when we were active with the Long Island
Beekeepers group, a sobering experience for a few of the more pedantic
fellows who were hosting workshops.
(No one was embarrassed, they were privately  told which hive smelled bad,
and they addressed the issue after the workshop attendees left.)

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