182 Pet Dogs Trained to Detect the Eggs of One of the Most Destructive Invasive Insects in the United States, and Achieved Comparable Results to Those of Professional Conservation Dogs

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A group of researchers from Virginia Tech and Texas Tech University conducted an unpublished experiment for 182 teams formed by company dogs and their owners, which synthesizes in some way the value of company dogs to trace masses of eggs from the torch fly with stains, an invasive species that causes very serious damage to American vineyards, fruit crops and forests. The aim of this research was precisely to show that domestic dogs, once traine…