December 04, 2005

Bomb-sniffing wasps? Researchers have developed a way to quickly train wasps to detect odors. A more crucial development, the Wasp Hound, lets them know when the wasps actually smell something (since it's really hard to tell otherwise).
posted by cabingirl 18 years ago
  • When I came back from Costa Rica, I had fifteen bottles of hot sauce and fifteen pounds of coffee. The dogs went nuts. I just smiled. If they'd had attack wasps, well, I might have coiled and whimpered.
  • fifteen bottles of hot sauce Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Once upon a time it was "Pink Floyd Tapes"..
  • Just think of them as -- Freedom Flies.
  • rolypolyman wins
  • Indeed.
  • Can they maybe train wasps not to sting people?
  • And to pull sleds?
  • howabout wash dishes?
  • And to be a bit more effective at killing cicadas, which are the most repugnant insects in the world - big, dumb, loud, juicy and over-friendly. Bleh!
  • cicadas, which are the most repugnant insects in the world Wrong again! Cicadas are marvelous creatures, without whose creaking and chirping, summer evenings would not be nearly as pleasant. All one needs is a porch or shaded deck, a cold beer, and the sweet sawing of the brood. But then this is exactly the kind of spin and mistruth I've come to expect from a neocon apologist like you, babykiller. /bizzurn-zing
  • Hey man, the baby had it comin' . . .
  • True. In his defense, the baby was kind of a dick.
  • I want to know how you know they're juicy. No, wait, I don't.
  • Especially juicy when sauteed in a wine sauce.
  • I don't know nothin' bout killing no babies! I know cicadas are juicy because I've stepped on 'em and soiled a good pair of shoes, not to mention making a splat on my porch that took a powerwasher to erase. Filthy beasts! I'll see them all destroyed!!!