Pesticidi i fitomedicina 2011 Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages: 265-270
https://doi.org/10.2298/PIF1103265D
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Selenium based product and sinantrop rodents control in agricultural facilities
Đedović Suzana (Institut za pesticide i zaštitu životne sredine, Beograd)
Vukša Marina (Institut za pesticide i zaštitu životne sredine, Beograd)
Stojnić Bojan (Poljoprivredni fakultet, Beograd)
Jokić Goran (Institut za pesticide i zaštitu životne sredine, Beograd)
In the function of environment preservation, chemical product used in plant
protection are being substituted by environmentally friendly substances. When
it comes to rodenticides and rodents not much is done for improvement of the
control of these pests on cattle farms and in field crops facilities. A
selenium based product, which for its mode of action is more acceptable than
chemical products, was investigated in this paper. Rodent death is achieved
with a single ingestion and there is no risk of intoxication of non-target
organisms. Symptoms of intoxication with this substance are not visible
before the death of an individual. The possibility of resistance development
is not known as the mode of action of this substance is based on cell death
caused by switch of S-H groups in functional cells by S-S bonds. Experiments
were conducted according to standard EPPO method. Paraffin baits in boxes
were placed at points where the greatest damage caused by rodents was
observed. For mice was used 20 g, and for rats 50-100 g. Dynamics of bait
ingestion was monitored daily and new quantities were added during the
experiment. The abundance of rodents was estimated by dividing the ratio of
the minimum and maximum amounts of daily eaten bait during the experiment by
daily food needs. The presence of rodents was monitored the following 20
days. The efficacy of tested paraffin products was calculated using Abbott’s
formula. The efficacy of this product was compared to the fast acting
products based on vitamin D3 and to slow acting bromadiolone based
anticoagulants in the experiments with Mus musculus and Rattus norvegicus.
Eco-friendly sodium-selenite based product expressed efficacy of 87,5% for
house mouse and 88,1% for the gray rat. It had higher efficacy than other
products in the experiment.
Keywords: eco-friendly product, mus musculus, rattus norvegicus, efficacy, agricultural facilities
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