Family pet Missy Giggins is a dog training to work as a bee hive disease detector

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A beekeeping family is diversifying its business by training the family pet to detect American foulbrood, a disease affecting honey bee colonies worldwide.

The Giggins family has only been keeping bees for three years, producing honey, their own queens and developing training services, but the family has a long association with bees.

Although using dogs for detection of AFB was not new, Mr Giggins believes it is the first time a dog of Missy's breed had been trained for the task. As part of industry regulation, the DPI scans fields and orchards looking for disease through commercial cropping times.

 

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Great story, real Australians doing interesting and positive things with their life, and Missy is wonderful.

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