Bait crops and mesurol sprays to reduce bird damage to sprouting sugar beets

Benjamini, L.

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“…Lark species (Alaudidae), chukar partridges ( Alectoris graeca chukar Gray), starlings and house sparrows are responsible for damage to vegetable and cereal sprouts 2. Chukar flocks can destroy more than 75% of sugar beet sprouts 3. Pigeons can consume nearly 250 000 kg per year of feed in a single shed 4.…”

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Aversion of the feral pigeon and the house sparrow to pellets and sprouts treated with commercial formulations of methyl anthranilate

Moran

2001

Pest Management Science

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Two methyl anthranilate formulations, ReJex-iT TP-40 and AG-36, were tested as bird-repelling agents for animal feed and vegetable sprouts, respectively. Feral pigeons (Columbia livia) and house sparrows (Passer domesticus) are important pests of animal husbandry and field crops in Israel. In each 4-day experiment, four birds were held together in an aviary, and were offered four trays or dishes with animal feed or cauliflower sprouts in four corners of the cage. The trays and dishes were transposed daily in a Latin square sequence. Pigeons consumed significantly more untreated feed than treated feed. When no alternative untreated food was offered, there was no significant repellency. Treatment of animal feed with TP-40 to give 2.0 ml methyl anthranilate kg-1 or less had no repellent effect on sparrows. Concentrations of 4.0 ml kg-1 or more repelled the sparrows significantly. When no untreated feed was presented, pigeons and sparrows preferred the lowest concentration of methyl anthranilate presented. When AG-36 was tested on vegetable sprouts, the sparrows tended significantly to avoid the highest concentration used--14.5 ml methyl anthranilate litre-1 spray. The inter-specific differences between the birds indicate that the efficacy of methyl anthranilate formulations as a repellent has to be specified for every species. This study did not determine (1) the possibility of developing habituation, (2) the behaviour of birds under natural conditions in the field, or (3) the influence of the feeding behaviour of a sympatric bird species on the repellency of methyl anthranilate to other species.

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“…Pigeons can consume nearly 250 000 kg per year of feed in a single shed 4. Repellents are preferable to lethal control but, unfortunately, with few exceptions (eg methiocarb)3 effective repellents are not available.…”

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Aversion of the feral pigeon and the house sparrow to pellets and sprouts treated with commercial formulations of methyl anthranilate

Moran

2001

Pest Management Science

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The efficacy of seed treatment with aldicarb to establish conditioned aversion in birds to sprouting sugar beets

Benjamini

1981

Phytoparasitica

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The cotyledons and stems of sugar beet sprouts from seeds each treated with 8 mg Temik granules containing 0.8 mg aldicarb, were noxious to adult Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix) and to 3-week-old chickens of domestic fowl. Mortality rate, intensity of poisoning situation, and the time interval between feeding and appearance of poisoning signs, corresponded with the number of sprouts red. The taste of aldicarb residues in the sprouts was discriminable by the birds as well.

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Testing aldicarb as a bird repellent in a sprouting sugar beet field

Benjamini

1981

Phytoparasitica

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Temik, the granular formulation of aldicarb [2-methyl-2(methylthio) propionaldehyde 0-(methylcarbamoyl) oxime], was ptaced together with sugar beet seeds during sowing along the rows, at a rate of 1.4 g/m, in a 1.5-ha experimental area within a 6-ha sugar beet field in an arid area with a long history of bird damage. Thirty-three chukar partridges, a major pest of sprouting crops, were observed foraging in the experimental area throughout the 4-week period between sowing and assessment of damage. Damage was restricted to the borders of the field, with a significant difference in level of damage between treated and control plots located along the borders; the size of damaged areas was about five times smaller in the treated plots than in the control plots. The results were interpreted as reflecting the repellent effect of aldicarb absorbed by the sprouts, and as establishment of a conditioned aversion by the chukars to sugar beet sprouts. The high toxicity of the treated sprouts was demonstrated when adult Japanese quail were fed sprouts coUected from treated plots.

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Bait crops and mesurol sprays to reduce bird damage to sprouting sugar beets

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Aversion of the feral pigeon and the house sparrow to pellets and sprouts treated with commercial formulations of methyl anthranilate

Aversion of the feral pigeon and the house sparrow to pellets and sprouts treated with commercial formulations of methyl anthranilate

The efficacy of seed treatment with aldicarb to establish conditioned aversion in birds to sprouting sugar beets

Testing aldicarb as a bird repellent in a sprouting sugar beet field

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