Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Populations One Year After Treatment With Rodenticides
Apa AD, Uresk DW, Linder RL. 1990. Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Populations One Year After Treatment With Rodenticides. Great Basin Naturalist (Western North American Naturalist). 50(2):107-113
"Three rodenticide treatments, zinc phosphide with prebait, strychnine with prebait, and strychnine without prebait, were applied to black-tailed prairie dog colonies in west central SD. Results were compared immediately posttreatment and for one year after application. Zinc phophide was the most effective for reducing prairie dog numbers immediately. When burrow activity levels of prairie dogs were initially reduced by 45% with strychnine only, they returned to untreated levels within ten months. When initial reductions were 95% with zinc phosphide, however, the number of active burrows was still reduced 77% in September the following year. Strychnine with prebait treatment showed inital reductions of 83% in burrow activity. Bait consumption by prairie dogs was highest for zinc phosphide." (from Abstract)
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Apa, Anthony; Uresk, Daniel; Linder, Raymond
- Units
- BADL
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Mammals, Management, Monitoring, Vertebrates, Wildlife Management