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    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%...l.pone.0000529

    http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0000288

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by gavin View Post
    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-book...reene/1055213/

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

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    Hi Grizzly,

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

    Jimbo

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    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.

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