This is Toby, a springer spaniel who has been trained as a secret weapon in the war against environmental change. He uses his nose in a very unusual way, to sniff out bumblebees.
Toby is going to be featured on the BBC's national television programme, the One Show, on Monday 1 September at 7 pm.
University of Stirling researchers have been awarded a grant worth £111,956 from the Leverhulme Trust to discover more about the world of bumblebees with the help of the specially trained sniffer dog.
The three year project is being undertaken by Professor Dave Goulson and Dr Kirsty Park, of Stirling’s School of Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Prof Goulson explained: “Bumblebees are very important to the environment as pollinators of crops and flowers, but sadly they are struggling to survive in the modern world of habitat loss, pesticides and intensive agriculture.
“Further declines in bumblebees could result in a downward cycle of poorer harvests and sweeping changes to the countryside, as wild flowers set less seed and disappear, which in turn could have catastrophic effects for other wildlife.”