[samtheman]

Although this attempt was surely stupid and misquided, today's technology (or perhaps tomorrow's) offers us a chance to actually use critters in spy work. It won't be long before cameras and wireless networking devices will be small enough to implant in the lowly bumble bee, hovering over the ground near cave-entrances, perhaps, sending billions of GPS-stamped pic-packets up to satellite collection devices, giving us thousands of little eyes just-above-the-ground. Far fetched? Perhaps. For now.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Although this attempt was surely stupid and misquided, today's technology (or perhaps tomorrow's) offers us a chance to actually use critters in spy work."

Carrier pigeons have been used succesfully in military/ espionage operations for centuries. The USN has had varying degrees of succes using dolphins in mining/ demining/ and reconnaissance ops. On the counterintel/ security side, patrol dogs are obvious choices, and in Viet Nam, geese were noted for their use as sentries.

[Timesink]

It won't be long before cameras and wireless networking devices will be small enough to implant in the lowly bumble bee.

We already don't even need the bee. They're already able to make robot bees with little cameras built-in, that they can send off on spy missions. I saw a science report on TV about this around six months ago.