# What Pet Dogs Can Do for Conservation with Melissa McCue-McGrath

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Podcast: [Positively Dog Training - The Official Victoria Stilwell Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/positively-dog-training-the-official-victoria-stilwell-podcast-400848)
Published: 2025-06-24T06:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3975

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What do pet dogs, invasive insects, and a ragtag group of behavior cases have in common? In this wildly inspiring and often hilarious episode, Victoria talks with longtime VSA faculty advisor Melissa McCue-McGrath about her groundbreaking work in a national study training pet dogs to detect spotted lanternfly eggs—an invasive species threatening agriculture across the U.S. From snowy deliveries of fly eggs in a Pokémon lunchbox to solving odor puzzles during heatwaves and blizzards,&nbs...

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