Sky News reports researchers say honeybees have a perfect sense of smell that can detect the odor of TNT, and they may be used to help find live landmines in Croatia.
Sky News explains, the sugar-craving bees are being trained to identify their food by using the scent of TNT (trinitrotoluene), a powerful explosives mix.
Dogs and even rats have been used to detect explosives worldwide, but unlike bees, adds Sky News, they could set off blasts on the minefields because of their weight.
Around 460 square miles are still suspected to be filled with sporadically-placed unmapped mines from Croatia's war in the 1990s but coming to the rescue could be the unlikely insect heroes, concludes Sky News.