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  2. Rodenticide - Wikipedia

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    Typical rat poison bait station (Germany, 2010) Rodenticides are chemicals made and sold for the purpose of killing rodents.While commonly referred to as "rat poison", rodenticides are also used to kill mice, woodchucks, chipmunks, porcupines, nutria, beavers, [1] and voles. [2]

  3. Mousetrap - Wikipedia

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    Mousetrap, mouse, bait (chocolate) Wood mouse is captured with cage snap case An early patented mousetrap is a live capture device patented in 1870 by W K Bachman of South Carolina. [ 11 ] These traps have the advantage of allowing the mouse to be released into the wild, or the disadvantage of having to personally kill the captured animal if ...

  4. 1080 usage in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Sodium nitrite is expected to be registered for use in for killing possums, but not rats. It will not control stoats because it will not knock down rat populations or bioaccumulate in poisoned animals. It does not leave residues in the environment and the risk of by-kill is expected to be low. It is much more humane than 1080. [citation needed]

  5. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to ...

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    "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" is a metaphor about the power of innovation. It originated, in a somewhat different form, with Ralph Waldo Emerson . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The epigram as known today, which specifies "mousetrap", probably also originated with Emerson, although the evidence for this is indirect.

  6. Brodifacoum - Wikipedia

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    Brodifacoum is a highly lethal 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist anticoagulant poison.In recent years, it has become one of the world's most widely used pesticides.It is typically used as a rodenticide, but is also used to control larger pests such as possums.

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  8. Pest control - Wikipedia

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    Warfarin has traditionally been used to kill rodents, but many populations have developed resistance to this anticoagulant, and difenacoum may be substituted. These are cumulative poisons, requiring bait stations to be topped up regularly. [38] Poisoned meat has been used for centuries to kill animals such as wolves [41] and birds of prey. [42]

  9. Of Mice And Men and To Kill A Mockingbird removed from Welsh ...

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    To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960 which tells the story of lawyer Atticus Finch as he defends Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of a raping a white woman, has ...