Pavlovian bees

[gavin]

Did you know that you can ....

- train cockroaches to salivate in response to an odour stimulus?

- train honeybees to give a stinging response by associating an odour with an electric shock?!

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000529

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000288

Sadly, the first of these studies was in a place that has been seriously disrupted recently.

[Jon]

Did you know that you can ....
- train cockroaches

Don't talk to me about cockroaches.
Graham, that's Greene rather than White, wrote quite a bit about these unsavoury characters.
Anyone who has ever lived in a developing country has waged a war against the cockroach.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/heart-of-the-matter-the-graham-greene/1055213/

[GRIZZLY]

Gavin,that's shocking - torturing poor bees to get a stinging response.I can get one of those without reverting to torture.

[Jimbo]

Hi Grizzly,

I take it you don't breed for docility then!

Jimbo

[GRIZZLY]

Hi Jimbo just read your thread.Yes I do breed for docility but the best behaved bees have a little lapse from time to time.I recon I probably collect no more than 2 or 3 stings a year and then only after trapping a poor unfortunate under my fingers by being careless.