Recent Advances in Rodent Control
Common Species Found in India:
Need for Rodent Management:
• According to Panse Committee’s report about 2.5%
losses are caused due to rodents in storage
annually.
• Apart from direct damage, rodents contaminate
grains with their faeces, urine, hair and even some
times with their own dead bodies.
• Secretive, Mobile and Nocturnal in nature
• Infest an area throughout the year irrespective of
crop or season.
• Ever growing incisor teeth ( 0.4 mm/day)
• Fast Breeders ( Potential~ 2000/pair/ year)
• Survive well in all situations ( extreme of deserts to high altitudes)
• Waste food grains 10 times more than they eat.
• average consume food grains about 8 to 15% of their body weight daily. 6 rats
eat one man’s food daily.
• Rodents are the largest order of mammals, comprising over 440 genera and
more than 2,000 different species.
• Population is Almost 1 rat for every human
• No rats at Antarctica.
• Canadian province of Alberta is notably the largest inhabited area on earth
which is free from true rats. This is because of aggressive government rat
control policies.
Understanding the Behavior
Neo-phobia
Bait shyness
(Fear of new things)
(avoidance learning)
Theigmotaxis Anticoagulant
(response to a
touch stimulus) resistance
Ability of a Rat
A Rats can:
– Crawl through or under any opening higher or wider than 1/2 inch
– Climb the outside of vertical pipes and conduits up to 3 inches in diameter
– Climb the outside of larger pipes attached to buildings by bracing themselves
between the wall and the pipe.
– Climb the inside of vertical pipes, wall voids, or earthquake safety seams and
joints between 1 1/2 and 4 inches in diameter
– Jump from a flat surface up to 36 inches (91 cm) vertically and as far as 48 inches
horizontally
– Drop 50 feet (15 m) without being seriously injured
– Swim as far as 1/2 mile (800 m) in open water
– Dive through water traps in plumbing, and travel in sewer lines against a
substantial water current.
Ability of a House mice
House mice can:
– Enter openings larger than 1/4 inch (0.6
cm)
– Jump as high as 18 inches (46 cm) from
a floor onto an elevated surface
– Travel considerable distances crawling
upside-down along screen wire
– Survive and reproduce at a temperature
of 24o F (-40C) if adequate food and
nesting material are available.
Rodent borne disease(Rat-Food-
Human):
• Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome - Contact with rodent urine or droppings.
• Rat-bite fever(Bacteria) - Humans exposed to rats
• Salmonellosis (Bacteria) - Eating food contaminated by rat feces.
• Leptospirosis (Bacteria) - Food contact with rodent urine
Trapping
Rodent
Baiting
Advances in Rodent Management
Sanitizin
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Rodent-
proofing
Open
bin
Key to success - Inspection
Existing Practices?
(part of preventive measure)
Metal Repellent
sheets s
Rat
Devices
guards
Preventing Proofing
Sealing Entry/ Proofing Structure
materials
(4D) s
Existing Practices?
(part of curative measure)
Snap traps Repellents
Live traps Smoking
Controlling
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Glue traps the incident
population es
1. Proofing
Barleria buxifolia
Pest Control Door Sweep
Possible Rodent Entry Points
Possible Rodent Entry Points
Rat Guards
Rat guards:
Arrest further movement
of the animal
Shipping yards
Buildings
Cables Deny Entry
Pipes
Metallic sheet cones
Specifications:
Solid metal sheet min. 0.024
inch (0.61 mm) thick,
projecting a minimum
distance of 12 inches (305
mm) beyond and on either
sides.
Rat guards around pipes, roof beams
Drain pipe grate
and cover
2. Repellents:
• Neem leaf powder (5%) showed anti feedant action on rodents
• Neem oil repelled the rats to the tune of 18-48%.
• kaner seeds, neem cake, castor seeds and jatropha seeds showed anti
rodent properties in preliminary trials
• Gossypol from crude cotton seed oil, papaya seed powder, root powder
of Calotropis etc have shown anti fertility actions of varying degrees.
• Peppermint oil / cedar leaf oil have been shown to deter rats for up to a few
days.
• Naphthalene balls in places of rat activity will make the area rat free.
• eucalyptus oil and mint oil have registered repellent actions against
commensal rodents.
• Jojoba seed cake powder (10-20%) recorded a repellency index of up to
90% in Tatera indica/Indian gerbil
Botanical Repellents
Rodent Repellent Spray:
3.
Predators
Role of microbes in
Rodent Management
4. Ultrasonic Devices
• Create stress to rodents.
• emit ultrasonic sound
waves of 25-65 kHz
• Inaudible to humans
STOLENBAND Pest control Machine Lamp - ₹499.00
5. Glue Board trap Pads
6. CHEMOSTERILANT FOR PEST
CONTROL
• Sterilizing medicine - gossypol, Chinese-
medicinal materials and raticide.
• 5 parts of gossypols, 2.5 parts of Radix
Trichosanthis, 2.5 parts of Rhizoma
Curcumae, 5 parts of malicious Mus agent,
10 parts of compositions of corn flour.
Indian field mouse (Mus
booduga)
References:
• http://www.cazri.res.in/rodent-control.php
• https://igmri.dfpd.gov.in/igmri/rodent-pests
• https://www.fao.org/3/t1838e/T1838E1L.HTM
• https://www.dodsonbros.com/rodent-management/
• https://www.jamisonpest.com/blogs/7-best-rodent-repellents-customer-reviews/
• http://saferodentcontrol.org/site/rodent-control/
• https://www.amazon.in/3M-Repellent-Effective-Leak-Free-Kill-only/dp/B07GBBKF54?th=1
• https://www.copesan.com/education/rodents-food-humans-deadly-combination/
• Integrated Rodent Pest Management in Field And Stores by Dr. R.S.Tripathy, Dr. B.K.Sahoo and Miss G.Sahoo, Dept. of Entomology,
OUAT, BBSR
• https://orienvis.nic.in/indexx.aspx?langid=1&slid=1073&mid=2&sublinkid=342#:~:text=Rodents%20are%20the%20major
%20vertebrate,crops%20like%20rice%20and%20wheat.
• Rodent Control of Stored Grains by T. HARADA, Chief, Grain Storage and Processing Division, Food Research Institute
• Jacoblinnert K, Jacob J, Zhang Z, Hinds LA (2022). The status of fertility control for rodents—recent achievements and future
directions. Integrative Zoology 17, 964–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12588
• https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1596916A/en
• Recent Advances in Rodent Pest Management by Dr. N. Srinivasa Rao, M.Sc. (Ag), Ph.D. Principal Scientist (Entomology) & Principal
Investigator, AINP on Vertebrate Pest Management , ANGRAU, RARS, Maruteru-534 122, A.P.
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