Equipped with her own tailored bee suit and a hood to cover her floppy ears, Maple — a former police dog — has an important retirement task: helping save thousands of honeybee hives. The canine has ...
Some dogs chase balls. Others herd sheep. But one very special pup in Michigan called Maple is chasing down a threat that could devastate entire bee colonies, and she’s doing it in a custom beekeeping ...
Maple works with researchers at Michigan State University to sniff out something called American foulbrood, or AFB, a bacteria that destroys honeybee larvae She once worked as a police dog to help ...
EAST LANSING, MI – An expert sniffer is helping researchers at Michigan State University detect beehive problems. Maple, an English springer spaniel, dons a makeshift bee suit to inspect hive boxes at ...