For more than a century, English Springer Spaniels have proven invaluable to huntsmen as loyal gun dogs that sniffed and ...

Researchers in New York have found that dogs can be trained to sniff out a pesky invasive species of insects more effectively than humans. The spotted lanternfly is an invasive pest that uses its ...

So Goethert collected infected ticks instead and figured out which animals they’d been feeding on. On Martha’s Vineyard, “shrews were in fact the most important host and not mice,” Goethert.

Growers and conservationists have a new weapon to detect invasive spotted lanternflies early and limit their spread: dogs trained to sniff out egg masses that overwinter in vineyards and forests.