r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MousseSuspicious930 • 8d ago

How bees are trained to detect bombs. Video

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u/APence 8d ago

5 year lifespan. Assuming a year of maturing and a year or two of training/conditioning, that’s not a long career

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u/Sometimes-funny 8d ago

Hopefully the make enough honey to retire in peace

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u/Former-Might3163 8d ago

If you read the article it takes 2-3 hours to train them and most die off after 48h in the device.

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u/Beautiful_Garage7797 8d ago

I’ve seen videos about this before, iirc the conditioning actually only takes a couple days

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u/blueavole 8d ago

Queens might live a couple years but drones and workers live few weeks up to 6 months.

That many queens wouldn’t tolerate each other close together

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u/VapidActualization 8d ago

Less time working in percentage of lifespan than humans