Laboratory and field evaluation of difethialone, a new anticoagulant rodenticide

• Main Authors: Saxena, Y., Kumar, Deepak, Bhandari, Tanuja, Bhasin, Hema
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1992
• Subjects: DIFETHIALONE; INDIA; HOUSE MICE; ROOF RATS; Funambulus pennanti; Meriones hurrianae; Rattus rattus; Mus musculus; anticoagulants; efficacy; rodenticide; rodenticides; anticoagulant; Life Sciences; Burrows
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9bq044m4

The efficacy of the newly developed anticoagulant rodenticide, difethialone, was evaluated against various rodent species in laboratory and fields. Difethialone at 0.025% concentration in the form of loose bait (broken wheat and rice + veg. oil + garlic powder) gave absolute mortality in Rattus ratt...