LABORATORY AND FIELD EVALUATION OF DIFETHIALONE, A NEW ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE

• Main Authors: Saxena, Y., Kumar, Deepak, Bhandari, Tanuja, Bhasin, Hema
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1992
• Subjects: Environmental Health and Protection; Burrows; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/vpc15/90; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/vpc15/article/1089/viewcontent/Saxena.pdf

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 + vegetable oil + garlic powder) gave absolute mortality in Rattus...