Steve Noble <[log in to unmask]> wrote:...... that they are not smelling the stuff to some degree.  If the sense of 
smell is so strong in one species of bee is it not rather unlikely that it 
would be absent in another, especially when the two species are after the same food?
Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk and his company use bees to smell out land mines and cadavers.  Bees can detect those odors at a lot smaller concentration than a dog can.  Ought to use them to smell out drugs at points of entry.

Mike in LA

       
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