Repellents to Protect Crops from Vertebrate Pests: Some Considerations for Their Use and Development

1978 ◽  
pp. 150-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN G. ROGERS
Keyword(s):  
Vertebrate Pests

The sensitivity of Australian animals to 1080 poison. I. Intraspecific variation and factors affecting acute toxicity

1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 369 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Mcilroy
Keyword(s):  
Acute Toxicity ◽  
Intraspecific Variation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Vertebrate Pests ◽  
Breeding Condition ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Males And Females

The calculated sensitivity (LD50) of a species to 1080 poison (sodium fluoroacetate), used for control of vertebrate pests, is affected by the experimental procedures employed. Variation can be minimized if the most obvious sources are avoided, as described in this paper. Very young mammals and female waterfowl in breeding condition may be more sensitive to 1080 than other members of their populations. No other substantial differences in sensitivity were found between males and females, immatures and adults, or within and between different populations of six species of birds and mammals in eastern Australia.

Crop protection.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Crop Protection ◽  
Early Agriculture ◽  
Weed Species ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Vertebrate Pests ◽  
The Many ◽  
Potential Food ◽  
Vast Range

Abstract Crop protection procedures have existed since the first attempts at early agriculture. While cultivation of a vast range of crops is vital our existence, these same plants are highly attractive to a diverse range of invertebrate and vertebrate pests, and disease pathogens. Competition from weed species also occurs on a worldwide scale. Even with the many forms of crop protection practised today, losses due to pests and diseases range from 10 to 90%, with an average of 35-40% for all potential food and fibre crops (Peshin, 2002).

Vertebrate Pests

2020 ◽  
pp. 362-369
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Vittum
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply ◽  
Vertebrate Pests ◽  
Methods Of Control

This chapter discusses vertebrate pests. Vertebrates become destructive to turfgrass in most cases simply because an attractive food supply exists in the turfgrass or soil below. Most often that food is insects or earthworms. Vertebrate pests are usually either birds or mammals. The chapter explains the biology and distribution of these pests. It also provides recommendations for the control of avian and mammalian pests. To control turf-damaging birds, eliminating the attractive food supply is necessary. The control of mammalian pests, apart from eliminating the attractive food supply of turfgrass insects, is explored briefly, since the various methods of control are longstanding and not subject to frequent changes.

scholarly journals Optimal bait density for delivery of acute toxicants to vertebrate pests

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 723-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim M. Pepin ◽  
Nathan P. Snow ◽  
Kurt C. VerCauteren
Keyword(s):  
Vertebrate Pests

Efficacy ofExserohilum monocerasfor the control ofEchinochloaspecies in rice (Oryza sativa)

Weed Science ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenming Zhang ◽  
Alan K. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Oryza Sativa ◽  
Weed Control ◽  
Dry Powder ◽  
Metal Mesh ◽  
Control Efficacy ◽  
Oil Emulsion ◽  
Leaf Stage ◽  
Inoculum Dose ◽  
Vertebrate Pests ◽  
Field Plots

Efficacy of an indigenous fungus,Exserohilum monoceras, for the control of 3Echinochloaspecies was evaluated and compared under both regulated greenhouse and screenhouse (field plots netted with 2 layers of metal mesh screening to exclude vertebrate pests) conditions. Under greenhouse conditions, an inoculum dose of 2.5 × 107conidia m−2killed all seedlings of both barnyardgrass andE. glabrescens, whereas an inoculum dose of 5.0 × 107conidia m−2was required to obtain 100% mortality of junglerice seedlings. The 1.5-leaf stage of all 3Echinochloaspecies was the most susceptible. Increasing inoculum density increased weed control efficacy on younger or olderEchinochloaseedlings. The highest level of control was observed forE. glabrescens, less for barnyardgrass, and least for junglerice. Under screenhouse conditions,Exserohilum monocerascaused more than 90% mortality ofEchinochloaspecies when the inoculum was formulated as an oil emulsion or when applied as a dry powder.

Wildlife Damage Control

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Hone
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Damage Control ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Wildlife Damage ◽  
Vertebrate Pests ◽  
Real Value

The types of damage caused by wildlife are many and varied, and can be costly and far-reaching. Until now, there has been little effort to identify and evaluate generalities across that broad range of species, methods and topics. Wildlife Damage Control promotes principle-based thinking about managing impact. It documents and discusses the key principles underlying wildlife damage and its control, and demonstrates their application to real-life topics – how they have been used in management actions or how they could be tested in the future. It synthesises the wide but diffuse literature dealing with the impacts of vertebrate pests and encourages readers to adopt a more theoretical framework for thinking about pest impacts and ways to manage them. The book is organised around key principles that apply across species, rather than looking at individual species, and is damage-based not pest animal-based. Within each chapter there are exercises designed to help readers learn and evaluate key principles. Conservation biologists, ecologists and others involved in wildlife management will find the sections covering principles in biodiversity conservation, of production such as agriculture, and in human and animal health of real value.

"They Know Not What They Do" — on William Rodier and his Mission to Exterminate Rabbits and other Vertebrate Pests

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 431 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Noble ◽  
G. H. Pfitzner
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
New South ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Informal Knowledge ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Vertebrate Pests ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Relationship

William Rodier (1859–1936) became well known throughout much of southeastern Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mainly through the vigour with which he expressed his contentious views on how best to control certain vertebrate pests. Much of his 'plan', particularly in regard to rabbits, was based on his experience as a pastoralist in western New South Wales. In this article, we examine what is known about Rodier's family background, his occupations, preoccupations, and particularly, the effectiveness of his endeavours to convince a largely sceptical public as to the wisdom and practicality of his method for vertebrate pest control. Some of the circulars and flyers printed by Rodier are also reproduced for illustrative purposes. These were designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Rodier Method, especially for controlling the rabbit, perceived by him to be the most serious threat then facing landholders in Australia. Rodier's activities are appraised in light of the relationship then existing between community-based science and more orthodox, academically-based science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Finally, this relationship is further explored in an historical context by examining the importance attached to local, informal knowledge in contemporary ecological research where landholder collaboration is now often regarded as an integral component.

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