Colorado Outdoor Vertebrate Pest Control - pesticides/rodenticides, etc 100%correct

Anticoagulant -ANSWER a chemical that interferes with the bloods ability to clot causing the affected animal to bleed to death Avicide -ANSWER a pesticide used to kill or repel birds Chemosterilant -ANSWER a chemical that causes an animal to become irreversibly sterile without changing its mating behavior or longevity Chemical Repellents -ANSWER purpose is to deter animal pests from a specific location or damaging activity; work through an animal's perception of taste, touch or smell Rodenticide -ANSWER a pesticide used to kill rodents; come as solid baits, liquids, dusts or fumigants Fumigant -ANSWER a substance or mixture that produces gas, vapor, fumes or smoke intended to destroy insects, bacteria or rodents/burrow-dwelling animals Chemical control -ANSWER method of pest control that involves the application of pesticides/chemicals Toxicant -ANSWER a chemical that can produce adverse health RUP(Restricted Use Pesticide) -ANSWER a pesticide that can only be sold to or used by a certified applicator; one of two categories of pesticides classified according to their potential hazards under FIFRA Baits -ANSWER an edible material that is attractive to pests; usually contains a pesticide Tracking powder -ANSWER diluted rodenticide in dust form applied to areas where rodents live and travel; sticks to fur and feet, kills through ingestion while grooming Dust -ANSWER a finely ground, dry pesticide formulation containing a small amount of active ingredient and a large amount of inert carrier or dilutent; mode of action same as with tracking powder Indandiones -ANSWER one of two classes of anticoagulant rodenticides; can cause symptoms leading to death before the hemorrhage occurs Courmarins -ANSWER one of two classes of anticoagulant rodenticides; includes both 1st and 2nd generation anticoagulants Area repellents (odor); Contact repellents (taste and/or touch) -ANSWER 2 classifications of repellents and the sense(s) they effect on an animal Area repellents -ANSWER usually repel by smell alone; applied next to trees during the growing season; ie ammonium soaps of higher fatty acids, human hair, blood meal Contact repellents -ANSWER applied directly to the plant or area; repel by creating an unpleasant taste; ie capsaicin, thiram , putrescence egg solids Acute Rodenticides -ANSWER lethal when a single dose is ingested; causes death by heart paralysis, gastrointestinal and liver damage, or by attacking the CNS Chronic Rodenticides -ANSWER lead to death only after the animal consumes toxic bait on several occasions; low dose becomes lethal when bait has been consumed several consecutive times; anticoagulant mode of action Sub-Acute Rodenticides -ANSWER can act as a single-dose poison if enough is consumed, or as a multiple-dose poison consumed over a period of days Non-anticoagulant Rodenticides -ANSWER Bromethalin; Calciferol(vit D3); Strychnine; Zinc phosphide Acute Rodenticides -ANSWER animal must consume sufficient dose for symptoms to develop; partial dose, one that does not kill the rodent, may produce side effects that cause what is known as "bait shyness" Anticoagulant Rodenticides -ANSWER work by reducing clotting factors in the blood; causes death by internal bleeding over the course of a couple days; antidote is vitamin K 1st generation anticoagulant rodenticides -ANSWER characterized by the need for the rodent to ingest multiple doses before a lethal dose is ingested; Warfarin was the first one developed in 1949; Chronic anticoagulants 2nd generation anticoagulants -ANSWER acute anticoagulants; mortality only 70-80% due to the likelihood these will cause bait shyness 1st generation anticoagulants -ANSWER Chlorophacinone, Diphacinone, Warfarin, Pinone