Vertebrate Pest Control and Management Materials: 5th Volume

Front Cover
ASTM International, 1988 - Technology & Engineering - 189 pages
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Key Word Standardization in Vertebrate Pest Control
3
Surveys as an Approach to Gathering Animal Damage Information
12
Evaluating Corn Varieties for Resistance to Damage by Blackbirds and Starlings
26
Evaluation of Repellent Seed Treatments and Effects on Early Corn Performance
39
A Test Method That Evaluates Avian Perch Repellents
52
Efficacy Testing of an Ultrasonic Bird Repeller
56
Procedures for Assessing Secondary Poisoning Hazards of Rodenticides to Owls
64
Evaluating Rodenticide Use Impacts on Agricultural Production
115
Metallic Flake Particle Markers for Determining the Feeding Behavior of Rats at Bait Points
128
Tetracyclines as Fluorescent Bone Markers in Cotton and Roof Rats
134
Retention of Physiological Marks by Coyotes Ingesting Baits Containing lophenoxic Acid Mirex and Rhodamine B
141
Criteria and Performance Standards
148
A Study of Wyoming Sheep Producers
159
A Review of Some Mule Deer Capture Operations
170
Summary
177

Levels of Strychnine in Poisoned Ground Squirrel Stomachs
73
Correlation of Two Census Methods Food Consumption and Gnawing Evidence for Assessing Norway Rat Populations
81
Efficacy Determinations of Rodenticide Use and Trapping for Reduction of Coconut Loss in the Philippines
89
Evaluation of Rodent Bait Station Use Under Controlled Conditions
103
Author Index
178
Subject Index
181
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