Mike Stoops asked:

>  > In other words, what [Wenner's group] had stumbled onto during
>the 1960s, von Frisch had already known back in the late 1930s and
>early 1940s.  The
>  > use of odor alone suffices to explain honey bee recruitment to food
>>  sources.
>
>Is this the method investigators have been using to utilize honey bees to
>sniff out explosive material (i.e. land mines) in military situations?

    That is correct.

                                                        Adrian
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