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Dogs Outperform Experts in Detecting Invasive Spotted Lanternfly Egg Masses
Key Takeaways
- Pet dogs trained by owners found spotted lanternfly egg masses that human experts missed.
- Dogs outperformed human searchers by more than 2-to-1 in real-world vineyard tests.
- Study published in PeerJ led by Virginia Tech's Erica Feuerbacher.
- Community-based detection could provide a scalable early warning system for invasive pests.
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DT Editorial Team··via phys.org