No more peanut butter for rats
Foods like peanut butter, chocolate and cinnamon have been used as a bait to lure rats and other rodents. Rats and mice are a problem for agriculture, food storage and processing, and human and animal wellbeing. Now a collection of compounds found in foods is being used to create a long-life rat lures that could boost efforts to reduce our ever growing rodent population. There are five chemical compounds found in an assortment of foods that are rats are attractive to. The new product will have different means of application from aerosol sprays, emulsions to aromatised pliable blocks. The new product is being made to guarantee traps would be consistently attractive over a long period, without the need for repeated loading. The baits will be easy to handle and stock, economical, and able to be mass-produced.
gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.C. Randy Bilesky
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