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Need to control Rodents?
Rodents cause more damage by contamination with urine, feaces and hair. Rodents have compulsive gnawing habit & because of this habit they destroy many articles like packing material, clothes, electric cables, lead pipes etc. They normally live in burrows and due to their burrowing habit they destroy structures such as floor, buildings etc. They also cause damage to the root system of plants leading to heavy loss to agriculture. Rodents are carriers of more than 40 diseases like Leptospirosis, Salmonellosis, Plague (Epidemic disease), Trichinosis etc.
Common species observed in India
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House mouse
(Mus musculus)
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Roof Rat
(Rattus rattus)
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Norway Rat
(Rattus norvegicus)
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Bandicoot rat
(Bandicota indica)
Mode of treatment
Proofing
This technique restricts the access of the rodents in an area. Various entry points are noted during the inspection of our technical executive and report is prepared, which helps in taking corrective action against rodents. Fitting rat guards to the drainpipes ,fitting hard metal strips to the bottom edges of door and various other proofing measures are done to minimize rodent population entering in the structure.
Mechanical Measures
Mechanical rodent control techniques are more appropriate in house holds. The commonly used method is trapping. The treatment comprises placing mechanical traps and sticky or glue traps in rodent runways.
Chemical Measures
Various type of rodenticides are used depending on rodent population & species.Only anticoagulant rodenticides are used in buildings. Systematic placement of rodent bait stations and rodenticide is necessary for complete rodent solution.
Rodent Bait Stations
Rodent Bait Station is the important constituent in chemical and mechanical control of Rodents. The Rodent Bait Station is a rectangular metal box in which rodent bait or Glue trap is kept.
Advantages of Rodent Bait Station
1) Rodents have a habit of eating in dark places, so get attracted easily towards Bait Stations.
2) Rodent Bait station is a labeled instrument and hence it becomes very easy to detect the places where rodenticide is kept.
3) As the Rodent bait is kept under box it is not easily accessible to pets and children and hence safer for pets and children.
4) Contamination or dilution of rodenticide can be avoided, and therefore the bait remains effective for a longer period.
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