Kickstarter Campaign: Montana’s Bee Alert Technology uses new technology to help beekeepers

A new app that should help beekeepers worldwide is on its way.

The app, which is being developed by a Missoula company, has interesting roots.

The app stems from a decade-old Department of Defense idea to use bees to find landmines, according to University of Montana Professor David Firth.

Firth is part of a team from UM that formed the company, Bee Alert Technology. They successfully trained bees to do just that.