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Use of bees in explosive devices detection

In addition to production of food and pollination, bees have recently been used for assessment of environment quality. If we have thought bees to consume certain food, i.e. the food having certain odor, for a following day or two bees will relentlessly search for that odor. Due to this characteristics of bees, intensive research has been conducted in recent years of the possibility to use bees in confirming the existence of explosive or in detecting location were the explosive odor exist. Research with bees has developed in two separate directions, i.e. passive and active methods of mine detection have been researched. Research has been conducted at a mine test site in Benkovac. There were 1000 mines on the area of 1 hectar. Mines have been buried for more than 5 years. After the bees were accustomed to find the food in the location of the TNT odor, we moved the colony to the test site. Bees were interested in the TNT odor for one or two days, when new food must be offered, or a new colony prepared. Since TNT has a very discrete odor, training of bees is more complex.

mines; TNT odor; training of bees

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