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Fire Ant Detection Dogs to Undergo Trial Training in Environment Ministry Plan

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The Yomiuri Shimbun

15:03 JST, November 5, 2025

To prevent the invasion of highly venomous fire ants into Japan, the environment ministry has decided to begin trial training of detection dogs to locate fire ants using their sense of smell, aiming to implement them by next spring.

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