Bees trained to sniff out land mines

Trained honeybees have shown a remarkable ability to sniff out land mines, suggesting a possible new way to find the estimated 110 million unexploded land mines around the world, according to researchers at the University of Montana.

Jerry Bromenshenk, who has studied bees as pollution sensors and environmental sensors for 30 years, said honeybees have proven themselves to be easier to train, harder working and more accurate than bomb-sniffing dogs.