Rodent management TABLE OF CONTENTS...........................ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. RATIONALE.........................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................4 ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF RODENTS IN RICE....................................5 Rats - Impacts from many fronts.................................................................................... 5 Eating their way to notoriety .......................................................................................... 6 Rodents as Carriers of Disease.....................................................................................8 Principles of Management............................................................................................. 9 Rodent IPM.................................................................................................................. 10 IPM the reality.............................................................................................................. 11 Ecologically-Based Rodent Management - the Principles...........................................12 Community Trap Barrier System .................................................................................13 Ecologically-based INTEGRATED management at COMMUNITY level.....................14 RODENT IMPACTS AND MANAGEMENT........................................................15 Overview of methods of management.........................................................................15 ...

 

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE – Vol. II - Pest Control: Rodents - Mark E. Tobin and Michael W. Fall PEST CONTROL: RODENTS Mark E. Tobin and Michael W. Fall National Wildlife Research Center, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Colorado, USA Keywords: Pest control, Rodents, Plantation crops, Stored products, Forest crops, Urban Rodent, Reforestation, Hydraulic Structure, Habitat Management, Rodenticides, Traps, Ultrasonics, Contents 1. Introduction 2. Characteristics of Rodents 3. Rodent populations 4. Types of Rodent Problems 4.1. Grain Crops 4.2. Sugarcane ...

 

Integrated Pest Management Reviews 4: 97–126, 1999. ©1999KluwerAcademicPublishers.Printed in the Netherlands. Rodentcontrol in India V.R. Parshad Department of Zoology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141004, India (Tel.: 91-0161-401960, ext. 382; Fax: 91-0161-400945) Received 3 September 1996; accepted 3 November 1998 Key words: agriculture, biological control, campaign, chemosterilent, commensal, control methods, economics, environmental and cultural methods, horticulture, India, pest management, pre- and post-harvest crop losses, poultry farms, rodent, rodenticide, South Asia, trapping Abstract Eighteenspeciesofrodentsarepestsinagriculture,horticulture,forestry,animalandhumandwellingsandruraland ...