Dogs are just alerting to the presence of the foul brood bacteria in bee
hives. Not an actual infection. The idea is to find it and treat them
before infection just like in fireblight. I bet they can smell it before
you're actually infected, provided you had samples to train the dog on in
the first
ere is a FB sniffing dog in my
future.
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Original message
From: Vincent Philion
Date: 08/19/2015 8:55 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: Apple-Crop
Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Copper and Dogs
Hi! Even if the smell was detectable ahead of visibl
Dogs have been trained to sniff out the citrus greening disease that has been
plaguing the Florida citrus industry. Besides being too late for FB the problem
with dogs is once they start panting they don't sniff well.
Researchers have trained dogs to ride on the back of an ATV while sniffing for
Hi! Even if the smell was detectable ahead of visible symptoms, it would only
happen after infection occurred. At that point, no spraying is possible. So I
don’t see how smell would be useful (?) The only management option after
infection is pruning out, which can’t be done by smell ;-)
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