Designer repellents: Combining olfactory, visual or taste cues with a secondary repellent to deter free-ranging house sparrows from feeding

Pest Management Science

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 870-877

  Clapperton, Barbara Kay ^a   Porter, Richard E R ^a   Day, Tim D ^a,b   Waas, Joseph R ^b   Matthews, Lindsay R ^a  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anthraquinone; Bird repellent; Colour; D pulegone; Feeding behaviour; House sparrow; Odour; Passer domesticus; Pest control; Taste aversion

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; PULEGONE; TERPENE;

BAIT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONSUMPTION; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PASSERINE; PEST SPECIES; REPELLENT; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; COLOR; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOUSING; METHODOLOGY; ODOR; PEST CONTROL; SPARROW; TASTE; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAQUINONES; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; COLOR; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOUSING; MONOTERPENES; PEST CONTROL; SMELL; SPARROWS; TASTE; VISION, OCULAR;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; CINNAMOMUM VERUM; MAMMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84860881339     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.3244     Document Type: Article

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