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Crows in a trap on a farm in England. Almost all traps involve the use of food, water or decoys to attract birds within range and a mechanism for restricting the movement, injuring or killing birds that come into range. Food, water, decoy birds and call playback may be used to bring birds to the trap. The use of chemical sprays on crops or food ...
Trap nets used to trap birds (tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis); 14th century. Animal trapping , or simply trapping or ginning , is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including food, the fur trade , hunting , pest control , and wildlife management .
Fish or cut bait is a colloquial expression, dating back to the 19th-century United States, that refers to division of complementary tasks. It has multiple uses that have evolved over time, but all generally convey that an important decision must be made, often immediately, and failing to make a choice is to make oneself a useless obstruction.
A pitfall trap is a trapping pit for small animals, such as insects, amphibians and reptiles. Pitfall traps are a sampling technique, mainly used for ecology studies and ecologic pest control. [1] Animals that enter a pitfall trap are unable to escape. This is a form of passive collection, as opposed to active collection where the collector ...
Pheromone trap. A pheromone trap is a type of insect trap that uses pheromones to lure insects. Sex pheromones and aggregating pheromones are the most common types used. A pheromone-impregnated lure is encased in a conventional trap such as a bottle trap, Delta trap, water-pan trap, or funnel trap. Pheromone traps are used both to count insect ...
I cracked up at his absolute refusal! Dad would get him out and Blue would go right back in. Talk about a stubborn water-loving pooch! Commenters had a lot to say about the funny video.
Bird control. A top of broken glass provides an effective physical deterrent to birds considering resting on this wall. Bird control or bird abatement involves the methods to eliminate or deter pest birds from landing, roosting and nesting. Bird control is important because pest birds can create health-related problems through their feces ...
Heligoland trap. A Heligoland trap (or funnel trap) is a large, building-sized, funnel-shaped, rigid structure of wire mesh or netting used to trap birds, so that they can be banded or otherwise studied by ornithologists . The name is taken from the site of the first such trap, the Heligoland Bird Observatory on the island of Heligoland ...