Jacquelin Staab's organization Darwin's Bee Dogs has gathered buzz for using canines to detect bumblebees and their nests for research and conservation.
Some adorable new team members have joined Texas ' efforts to save the state's struggling bumblebee population this fall — Darwin 's Bee Dogs . Ecologist, bee advocate and dog lover Jacquelin Staab founded the conservation program in North Carolina . It has gathered plenty of buzz for enlisting the help of her canine friends to detect bumblebees and their nests for research, protection and conservation.
said the project will help count the populations 'of several pollinator species of greatest conservation need in Texas to inform conservation planning efforts.' . After trying several ineffective nest detection methods, Staab came across a paper from the British Department of Defense that noted how researchers trained a bee-seeking dog in 2011 'with some success.'
. In 2019, Staab began training her first dog — a German shorthaired pointer puppy, whom she called Darwin as an homage to famed biologist Charles Darwin. Thus, Darwin's Bee Dogs was born.
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