Insects to the rescue!

What is up with that? Scientists and possibly Homeland Security could use bees, cockroaches, and other creepy crawlies to detect yuckiness.

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“Cockroaches can detect all kinds of things, from anthrax spores to DNA,” says Karen Kester, an entomologist at Virginia Commonwealth University. With $1 million in funding from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), Kester is studying ways to use roaches and houseflies as toxin sentinels inside contaminated buildings or subways.