How dogs could save wine production threatened by disease A pair of English Springer Spaniels called Zinny and Sauvi B have been recruited to hunt down vineyard-destroying bugs in California.
The dogs’ acute sense of smell is being used to detect mealybugs, which infect grapevines with a killer virus called leafroll 3.
Its hoped the animals and their offspring could replace pesticides in the long term (file image).
Its hoped the animals and their offspring could replace pesticides in the long term and protect valuable crops from decimation.
The dogs can smell things that to us as humans have no smell.
