From DailyWire.com….
Scientists in the Netherlands have trained bees to identify the coronavirus in an inventive and speedy new way to detect the deadly disease that has killed millions across the world.
A group of Dutch scientists at Wageningen University in Lelystad, Netherlands, trained bees to extend their tongues when they smell the coronavirus, the researchers said in a press release.
“Each time the bees were exposed to the scent from an infected sample, they received a sugar water solution reward,” the group wrote. “The bees extended their tongues to collect the sugar water solution. By repeating this action several times, the bees associated the sugar reward with the scent as the stimulus.”
Eventually, the bees began sticking out their tongues, called proboscises, when exposed to the coronavirus even when they did not receive a reward, the researchers said.
