BEES AS BIOSENSORS OF DRUGS AND EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES – A Bibliographic Review (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Bees have been acquiring space as biological biosensors in prevention and repression activities in the location of explosives and narcotics in some International Security Institutions. Normally this attribution was only for canines, now a reality for insects and other mammals. Using bees as a biosensor is effective, with the right training and use of equipment to allocate bees when needed and when required. This article is a literature review study, with a descriptive and comparative procedure of scientific works that describes the sensory system of bees and the species used as biosensors, explaining the techniques used for training and the efficiency of economy, both in time as economic financing. In addition to being a low-cost project, similar to other technological innovations, it also has its downfall as in the progression of its training, where the training of bees is effective in hours, while other animals of different taxonomy would take at least months to train. detection and various stages to progress. For a good detection operation to occur, it is necessary to combine a deeper study of knowledge in different situations and use technology to provide operational ease regarding the precision and sensitivity of bees as a biosensor.