Study: To Increase Agricultural Production, Bees Can Be Trained to Smell Like Police Dogs

Scientists at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina have discovered that bees can be trained like police dogs to detect scents, and the research team hopes this will help make bees more efficient during the pollination process. In the study, a colony of bees was given food coated with an artificial scent mimicking that of sunflowers, and it was found that this sample of bees visited sunflowers repeatedly, leading to a significant increase in agricultural production.