The Use of Familiar Odors to Reduce the Impact of Container Neophobia on the Control of Norway Rats (Rattus Norvegicus)

Watkins, Richard; Whiterow, Anne; Bull, Dominic S.; Cowan, David P.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-4733-4_61

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“…CS 2 act as a safety signal odor when rat encounter new food or new places, thus reducing their neophobic reaction and increase food acceptance and consumption levels. Food odors made familiar to rat can reduce bait container neophobia in wild rats (Watkins et al, 1999).Our output also reliable with those of Bean et al (1998) and in which Carbon disulphide scent producing more attraction in rat than no scent. CS 2 scented zinc phosphide bait consumption increased 109 to 112% than non-scented bait and also increased the rat population.…”

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Use of carbon disulfide as attractant for trapping and rodenticide baiting of Bandicota bengalensis (GRAY)

Alam

Hasanuzzaman

2016

SAARC J Agric

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Management of rodent with rodenticide and trapping is frequently ineffective due to bait or trap shyness and neophobia. A study was conducted in the laboratory of Vertebrate Pest Division, BARI, Gazipur and field to increase the attractiveness of bait or trap to B. bengalensis and enhance the consumption of novel food by using different concentration of carbon disulfide (CS 2 ). Study revealed that addition of CS 2 improved bait acceptance of food. Five ppm concentration of CS 2 , rat consumed significantly greater amount of cereal bait than untreated plain wheat bait. In semi-natural field test, significantly greater number (59%) of rat was trapped in CS 2 scented bait than without scented bait (41%). In the field study higher population reduction (85-91%) was achieved with CS 2 scented zinc phosphide bait than without scented zinc phosphide bait (50%). That is 80% higher reduction of rodent population was achieved with CS 2 treated zinc phosphide bait. From this study we conclude that CS 2 can improve the efficiency and consumption of poison bait and can increase trap success.

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confidence: 88%