Trained bees make first warzone discovery of lost explosives confirms Scots scientist

Trained bees have been successfully used for the first time to find mines in a former Yugoslavian warzone, a Scottish scientist has revealed.

The honey bees led mine clearance teams to unexploded ordnance in Croatia after they were trained to hone in on the smell of explosives.

Dr Ross Gillanders of St Andrews University helped design equipment which detects if bees are returning to the hive with tiny traces of explosives.