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Florida's Agriculture Department is using sniffer dogs to help catch giant African snails that can wreak havoc on farms and other vegetation, as well as cause meningitis in humans.
The agriculture department called the snails "one of the most damaging" mollusk subtypes in the world.
Its unusually large size combined with its ability to procreate in vast quantities allows the creature to infiltrate surrounding areas quickly, posing a grave threat to vegetation and infrastructure due of its appetite for at least 500 different types of plants as well as paint and stucco.
"We're concerned with that being in our environment," biologist Jason Stanley, who works at the department said.
This will be the third time that Florida has exterminated an infestation of the giant African snails, the first being in 1975 and the last in 2021.
Dogs are being trained to sniff out these snails and have been trained to sit on them once it locates it.
Over 1,000 snails have been caught so far.