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Verification of mechanically demined areas with bees

Bees have a developed olfactory sense, so we would like to suggest the use of bees in mine detection in inaccessible terrain and mechanically demined terrain. Bees have traditionally trained on new scents when they are moved to new pastures and when they are used in pollination. Dr, Bromenshenk (2002) from Montana, USA, has proved the possibility of training the bees on the scent of explosive scent, in he has also calculated the ROC. If the bees are fed in the area rich with explosive scent, in few days they will link the food source with the scents present. The next day the bees will search for the scent, expecting to find food sources in these places. The bees will give up on the search for the explosive scent after a day or two, depending on natural sources of nectar in the environmen. The preparation of second group of the community of bees enables continued work.

bees; minefields; verification

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