Wasps Are Man’s New Best Friend? Entomologists Train Insects to Act Like Sniffing Dogs

Wasps are not man’s best friend — probably their worst. But when it comes to sniffing out trouble, scientists believe they may be better than dogs.

They ward off intruders, track down criminals, find bombs and detect toxic chemicals, but dogs could soon be replaced by wasps. They have the same sensitive odor detection as dogs and are now being trained to sniff out trouble.

“The advantages of a wasp over a dog is you can produce them by the thousands. They are real inexpensive, and you can train them in a matter of minutes,” Joe Lewis, a research entomologist at University of Georgia in Athens, tells DBIS.

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