Honeybees Will Help Police to Find Weed
With drug laws changing all the time, it’s hard for police sniffer dogs to keep up with what they’re supposed to find and what they aren’t. That’s why police forces are turning to insects to sniff out narcotics.
An odd scientific paper in PLoS One today details the very first attempts to get insects to become drug sniffers. The researchers tested three insects — the grapevine moth, the hissing cockroach, and the western honeybee — just to assess how well they could differentiate the smell of one substance from another. The bees won, because their antennae make great “biosensors,” the researchers report.
Testing took place in the Police Laboratory for Criminal Technology in Hesse, Germany. The researchers explain there are a lot of reasons to use bees, and it’s not just because cannabis legalization is confusing all their dogs:
Recreational cannabis use was recently legalized in two US states and is
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