More from Jerry Bromenshenk:
 
"With respect to Chrissy and Peter's recent comments:
 
1) Bees certainly do live long enough to train, and our systems make training self-sustaining.  Each day bees are lost from the forager group, but new ones come into that function.  They rapidly learn from other bees -- and our patented systems use microprocessor control systems to sustain the conditioning -- up to weeks and months.
 
As per how long it takes to train a bee, we have a video on Youtube (i.e., Griz Bees) whereby a bee flies through a maze following the logo of our Grizzly football team.  Whole thing took 2 1/2 hrs from start of training of the bees to completion of the final video.
 
2) DARPA can spend lots of money -- their philosophy, high risk research, with high payoff potential.  Failures are easy to find, but keep in mind that DARPA also produced the Internet (not Al Gore nor NSF) and the Stealth Bomber.  There wouldn't be a Bee-L without DARPA.
 
Jerry"
 

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