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

Abstract

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.

Methods for Assessing the Impact of Fog Oil Smoke on Availability, Palatability, & Food Quality of Relevant Life Stages of Insects for Threatened and Endangered Species

“…Detection, avoidance, and conditioned aversions (palatability) of contaminated food have been demonstrated in birds exposed to pesticides in laboratory studies (Bennet and Schafer 1988, Bennet 1989aand 1989b, Bussiere et al 1989, Kononen et al 1986. Contaminant-induced changes in feeding behaviors have been observed in the field; conditioned aversions have been demonstrated in several species exposed to contaminated vegetation food sources (Robel and Morrow 1988, Benjamini 1981, Dingledine 1987. Ease of capture has been related to conspicuousness of prey (Atlegrim 1992).…”