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Trained bees can 'sniff' out COVID-19 in samples in just SECONDS
Daily Mail via MSN ^ | 5/16/21 | Reuters, Stacy Liberatore

Posted on 05/07/2021 1:32:18 AM PDT by Libloather

Bees have an excellent sense of smell to detect chemicals, such as pheromones, and Dutch scientists are using their natural power to identify samples infected with coronavirus.

Scientists in the bio-veterinary research laboratory at Wageningen University trained the insects by giving them sugary water after as a reward for spotting the virus in samples and no reward after being shown a non-infected sample.

After numerous tests, the bees were able to spontaneously extend their tongues to receive a reward when presented with an infected sample, said Wim van der Poel, a professor of virology who took part in the project.

The team says that a trained bee is capable of detecting an infected sample in just a few seconds, which drastically reduces wait times of current methods.

'We collect normal honeybees from a beekeeper and we put the bees in harnesses,' he said. 'Right after presenting a positive sample we also present them with sugar water. And what the bees do is they extend their proboscis to take the sugar water.'

Researchers used the Pavlovian condition method to train the bees, which is a learning process through association.

Each time the bees were exposed to the scent of an infected sample, they received a sugar water reward.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: bees; covid; rona; trained
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The real trick is getting them to sign the bee passport.
1 posted on 05/07/2021 1:32:18 AM PDT by Libloather
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Pfizer will come out with bee robot drones that can do the same thing IF Biden will pay Pfizer $2 billion from taxpayers’ money.


2 posted on 05/07/2021 1:45:09 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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3 posted on 05/07/2021 1:54:03 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Wow, I know it is much more rare, almost cured now, butt I wonder if the bees can detect the regular flu as well...


4 posted on 05/07/2021 2:57:31 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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5 posted on 05/07/2021 3:03:35 AM PDT by xp38
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To: martin_fierro

ROFL
MAO


6 posted on 05/07/2021 3:13:34 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: C210N

Covid cured the flu, but made Math racist...


7 posted on 05/07/2021 3:18:04 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Libloather

So they trained bees to like sugar?


8 posted on 05/07/2021 3:19:25 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: EEGator

Anything that is/was good is now racist... math, science


9 posted on 05/07/2021 3:19:57 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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GEE BEES?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNFzfwLM72c


10 posted on 05/07/2021 3:20:17 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: C210N

Whites...


11 posted on 05/07/2021 3:20:40 AM PDT by EEGator
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Ward what about the BEAVER?


12 posted on 05/07/2021 3:21:50 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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// ...we put the bees in harnesses... //

Babylon Bee, is that you?


13 posted on 05/07/2021 3:31:36 AM PDT by cyn (an appeal to Heaven)
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How long still they start using Giant Asian Murder Hornets...


14 posted on 05/07/2021 3:32:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Dacula; dsc; Puppage; Fiddlstix; Meatspace; TianaHighrider; Migraine; jagusafr; SoConPubbie; ...

Ping

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15 posted on 05/07/2021 3:47:42 AM PDT by Dacula
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Great start, but they still have a long way to go.
1)Train bees to recognize virus (done)
2)implant vaccine in bee stingers
3)Train bees to sting infected humans...
16 posted on 05/07/2021 3:59:26 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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As a beekeeper this doesn’t surprise me whatsoever. I watched a documentary on “Bee Brains” and learned they can figure out a maze, and remember the path to their “treat” over and over again much faster than any mouse or rat. Normally after only 1 or at most 2 tries.

When I harvest honey, the empty comb is placed outside for them to clean up the excess honey. Take them, literally, less than a minute to smell it from 50 yards away and bring back hundreds of their sisters to enjoy the free meal.

Fascinating little creatures God created when designing the honey bee :)


17 posted on 05/07/2021 5:06:28 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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Too bad you can’t train them to pull varroa mites off each other. For size comparison, a mite on a bee is like a horseshoe crab on a human. Not hard to notice.


18 posted on 05/07/2021 6:40:19 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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:)


19 posted on 05/07/2021 7:01:37 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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It should be easy to detect a$$hole$!


20 posted on 05/07/2021 7:02:29 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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