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Bird scarers is a blanket term used to describe devices designed for deterring birds by startling, confusing or otherwise repeling them, typically employed in commercial settings by farmers to dissuade birds from consuming and defecating on recently planted arable crops. Numerous bird scarers are also readily available to the public direct to ...
Acoustic harassment and acoustic deterrents are technologies used to keep animals [1] and in some cases humans away from an area. Applications of the technology are used to keep marine mammals away from aquaculture facilities and to keep birds away from certain areas (for instance in the vicinity of airports and blueberry fields).
Electronic pest control is the name given to any of several types of electrically powered devices designed to repel or eliminate pests, usually rodents or insects. Since these devices are not regulated under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in the United States, the EPA does not require the same kind of efficacy testing that it does for chemical pesticides.
If you've been shopping in a big box retail store you've probably heard an announcement on the loudspeaker such as, "code yellow toys, code yellow toys." This "code" is one of many innocuous ...
Two reopened as Home Depots, while three were closed permanently. Five smaller stores were reopened in Spring 2007 as YardBIRDS, a Home Depot company, but have since closed. [2] Late in January 2009 Home Depot announced the closing of all 5 YardBirds Stores along with the entire EXPO division. John Morrison Headley, founder of Yardbirds, died ...
A statistical survey into customer satisfaction levels with ultrasonic deterrents concluded that 80% of owners expressed satisfaction with the results of ultrasonic deterrent devices. [ 3 ] The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), has endorsed a commercial product called "CatWATCH", [ 4 ] for which it receives 2% of the wholesale ...
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