German airports use honeybees to test air quality

You could get one of those fancy gadgets to monitor air quality as you trundle about your neck of the woods, but if you're more concerned for the environment's well-being than your own, all you apparently need is an active beehive. Eight German airports are presently using honeybees to test the air for toxins by shipping their honey to a local lab -- and for four years running, that honey's tested just fine. Last year, Dusseldorf International Airport produced 200 jars of the stuff. We wouldn't pay extra for airport honey, mind you, but we suppose we'd give it a try...

[pavelgr Posted Jul 1st 2010 4:11AM]

Authorities are already using bees for detecting drugs.

[Neotyguy40 Posted Jul 1st 2010 4:26PM]

@pavelgr

I like my coffee how I like my women...

[pavelgr Posted Jul 2nd 2010 1:17AM]

@Neotyguy40 I didn't get that...

[SL2 Posted Jul 1st 2010 4:19AM]

Used in Sweden as well.

[SL2 Posted Jul 1st 2010 4:43AM]

@SL2
At airports, that is.

[benblb Posted Jul 1st 2010 4:45AM]

Bees never fail! Ouch! It stung me.

[Alfonzo Bolla Posted Jul 1st 2010 5:51AM]

I have had it with these mother-loving bees in this mother-loving airport!

[icon808 Posted Jul 1st 2010 6:11AM]

Beee..utiful!

[pietz Posted Jul 1st 2010 6:38AM]

NO GOAL!

[eaywtaw Posted Jul 1st 2010 8:54AM]

Beads?

[Elduderino2412 Posted Jul 1st 2010 11:50AM]

THERE ARE BEES ON THIS M-Fing PLANE!!!!!!!

[Iceman5545 Posted Jul 1st 2010 3:59PM]

Yet another thing Germany has done to seem smarter than the US. Come on Obama quit being lazy and think of stuff like this!

[Independence76 Posted Jul 2nd 2010 12:23AM]

I hate bees. I like Germany. I flew into Frankfurt twice. I'm scared.

[slybeans Posted Jul 3rd 2010 5:07PM]

In a plastic cup!