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Bee mine detection systems for the reduction of suspected minefields

Development of system of bee detection of suspected minefields have some very important advantages over the systems used date. In 1-2 hours after implementing the instruments and beehives near the minefield, bees start to forage without a risk for humans (it offers potential of standoff detection). A detection process is conducted in 2 phases: 1) bees, in a free flight above the mines, collect on their hairs various particles from the air and bring them to the hive and 2) air samples from the hive are chemically analyted to detect the trace of explosives. The radius of the bees flight ranged up to 1500m. With technological treatmens bees could bee oriented in their moving to a desired suspected area. The bees are choiced as the best biological detector for suspected minefields performing their searching tasks in the free flight above field mines, not limited by explosions, inaccessible terrain or forest. The system is applicable everywhere, as the bees and beekeepers are avaible all over the world, and after detection tasks returned to their standard work. Method restriction is related to weather conditions and extreme bee forage to reduce possibilities to orient bees to the target area. Equipment for the air sampling, chemical analysis, and data processing is commercially available.

bees; detection system; minefields

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