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Funding Program:
Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program |
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Project Title:
Rodent Management Working Group |
Project Directors (PDs):
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Lead State: CA Lead Organization: University of California |
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Cooperating State(s):
Arizona, Washington |
| Undesignated Funding: $29,926 |
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Start Date: Mar-01-2019 End Date: Feb-29-2020 |
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Summary:
Rodents are among the most economically significant pests in the world, causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage to agricultural crops and structures, as well as being vectors of disease that can cause death in humans. The need for integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for rodents is increasing. Studies have shown that climate change has the ability to affect fecundity, litter sizes, and the survivability of adults in some mammalian species. It is also thought that climate change is most likely to affect the free living, intermediate, or vector stages of pathogens, such as those that infect commensal rodents.
Best management practices for rodents are long overdue. Integrated pest management was created primarily for the management of invertebrates. Practices inherent to traditional IPM will have to be adapted and altered to be effective for vertebrate pest management. Evidence from well-designed studies should be used to validate methods for effective rodent control that are both practical and economical. We propose to form a rodent management working group that brings together regulators, researchers and applicators to collaborate on modifying current rodent control practices for agricultural and urban sites with the goals of improving the effectiveness of rodent management and reducing rodenticide exposure to nontarget species.Subgroups will focus on rodent management in agriculture, in urban areas, rodenticide exposure in wildlife, regulatory affairs, and education of professional pest managers. Objectives: The overall objective is to initiate the process to develop research-based IPM for agricultural and structural rodent control. 1. Host 4 focus groups with stakeholders in California, Washington, Hawaii, and Arizona to determine the challenges and knowledge gaps associated with growers and structural pest professionals. 2. Disseminate information from focus groups collected in report form and then discussed over Zoom conference call. 3. Host three-day workshop to share knowledge, identify knowledge gaps, identify research priorities, and outline code of practice for rodent management in agriculture and urban environments 4. Write report 5. Deliver information to state regulatory agencies 6. Identify next steps for broader adoption of IPM for rodent control |
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