This is Elroy, a springer spaniel trained by Martin Dominick in Australia to sniff out honey bee hives with American Foulbrood (AFB) disease.
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| Image from the Australian Government RIRDC. |
Like Klinker the black lab from the Maryland Dept. of Agriculture, mentioned in an earlier post, Elroy is employed to seek out any honey bee colony that is infected with the AFB bacteria Paenibacillus larvae. These bee dogs are able to do this work much faster and arguably more effectively than bee keepers (no offense intended to bee keepers). Elroy even had a bee suit made especially for him so he could work at anytime and not worry about stings. That's pretty darn cute.
Images of the article written about Elroy back in 2011 by the Australian Government Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation:
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