The Rat A World Menace Vermin And Pest Control Series

Author : A. Moore Hogarth
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781528769471

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The Rat - A World Menace (Vermin and Pest Control Series) by A. Moore Hogarth Pdf

Originally published in the early 1900s, this extremely rare early work on the Rat is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. READ COUNTRY BOOKS have now republished it, using the original text and illustrations. The author was an acknowledged expert upon pests and their extinction. He was also a member of the London College of Pestology and was instrumental with others in placing a "Bill for Rat Destruction" before Parliament in 1908. This important book on Rats and their control, consists of one hundred and seventeen pages containing seventeen Detailed chapters and a number of vintage illustrations: History of the Rat. Species of Rats, Voles and Mice. Description of Same. The Domestic Mouse and How to Deal with It. Habits of the Rat, and its Fecundity. Waste of Food, and Damage Caused by Rats. The Rat as a Carrier of Disease and a Menace to Health. Natural Enemies of the Rat. The Rodier System. How to Kill Rats. Stopping. Flooding and Smoking. Ferreting. Trapping. Poisons. Bacterial Cultures. Rats on the Estate, Farm, and in Outbuildings. Rats in Shops, Factories, Warehouses and Dwellings. Rats in Sewers. Rats on Board Ships. Suggested Measures. Deratisation. Also retained are numerous original adverts for Traps, Poisons, Rat Lime and Rat Varnish, Baits and other requisites for the destruction of the rat. This is a fascinating read for any pest control enthusiast or naturalist historian, with much of the information remaining practical and useful today. Many of the earlier Natural History and Rural books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. READ COUNTRY BOOKS are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Jerry Langton
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466872028

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Rat: How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Clawed Its Way to the Top by Jerry Langton Pdf

From its origins in the swamps of Southeast Asia to its role in the medieval Black Death to its unshakeable niche in modern urban centers, the rat has incredible evolutionary advantages. Combining biology with history, and social commentary with firsthand experience, Rat dispels the myths and exposes the little-known facts about the ubiquitous rodent. Plague carrier, city vermin, and an out-and-out menace to modern man, the rat, like death and taxes, is a certain fixture in humankind's history. Rats are found in virtually every nook and cranny of the globe and their numbers are ever increasing. Rats are always adapting and they seem to outwit any attempts by humans to wipe them out. What makes the rat such a worthy adversary and how has it risen to the top of the animal kingdom? • Rats have been discovered living in meat lockers. The rats in there simply grew longer hair, fatter bodies, and nested in the carcasses they fed upon. • A female rat can, under good conditions, have well over 100,000 babies in her lifetime. • A rat can fall fifty feet onto pavement and skitter away unharmed. • A rat's jaws can exert a force more than twenty times as powerful as a human's. • The front side of a rat's incisors are as hard as some grades of steel. In Rat: How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Clawed Its Way to the Top, Jerry Langton explores the history, myth, physiology, habits, and psyche of the rat and even speculates on the future of the rat and how they might evolve over the next few hundred years.

Author : Mark Hovell
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447499374

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Rats And How To Destroy Them (Traps And Trapping Series - Vermin & Pest Control) by Mark Hovell Pdf

RATS AND HOW TO DESTROY THEM By Mark Hovell. Originally published in 1924, this rare early work on rats and their control is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. READ COUNTRY BOOKS has republished it in an affordable, high quality, modern edition using the original text and artwork. The author was an expert and dedicated destroyer of rats who also invented the "Terrier" Death Run Rat Trap and the Blocking Trap. He was persuaded to write this fascinating book after fighting a memorable battle in ridding a friend's house and farm of a long established and numerous rat colony. Utilising his vast knowledge of the Brown and the Black Rat, and his many years of practical experience in their destruction, he penned this, the most comprehensive of all books ever published on this particular subject. Over five hundred pages contain forty eight detailed chapters including : - Habits and Natural History of the Rat. - Traps, Type and Use - Signals. - Trapping Methods. - Snaring. - Ferrets and Ferreting. - The Mongoose. - Dogs. - Trailing. - Poisoning. - Virus. - Blocking. - Flooding. - Fumigation. - Varnish and Rat Lime Trap. - The Rodier System. How to Deal with Rats in the House, Shop, Outbuildings, Yards, Stables, Cow -Houses, Fowl Pens, Pig Sties, Gardens, Greenhouses, Rivers and Ships. - Rats on Shooting Estates and Farms. - Sewers. - Notes on Plague. - Cancer in Rats. etc etc. There are also chapters on the control of mice, cockroaches and sparrows, with extra detailed chapters on traps and their design. Over fifty text illustrations are included, detailing trap design and usage etc. Also retained are several pages of vintage advertisements for rat traps, poisons, baits, books etc. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the countryside, rural conservation, pest control, game keeping etc, with much of the historical information remaining useful and practical today. Many of the earliest sporting books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. READ COUNTRY BOOKS are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Alan P Buckle,Robert H Smith
Publisher : CABI
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781845938178

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Rodent Pests and Their Control, 2nd Edition by Alan P Buckle,Robert H Smith Pdf

The most numerous of the world's invasive species, rodent pests have a devastating impact on agriculture, food, health and the environment. In the last two decades, the science and practice of rodent control has faced new legislation on rodenticides, the pests' increasing resistance to chemical control and the impact on non-target species, bringing a new dimension to this updated 2nd edition and making essential reading for all those involved in rodent pest control, including researchers, conservationists, practitioners and public health specialists.

Author : Ishwar Prakash
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351084901

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Rodent Pest Management by Ishwar Prakash Pdf

The objective of this multi-authored compendium is, therefore, to bring together the state of arts reported in one place. Written by specialists by specialists in various fields of rondentology, and to suggest future lines of research. It is also felt that this work on rodent pest management will trigger more research effort for the benefit of mankind and help certain countries and organizations in revitalizing serious work in this field which, it appears, has dampened during the last few years.

Author : Jerry Langton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0312363842

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Rat: How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Clawed Its Way to the Top by Jerry Langton Pdf

Examines the characteristics, physiology, habits, behavior, evolution, history, myth, and psyche of one of the world's most successful animals, in a study that explores the reasons why the ever-adaptable rat has risen to the top of the animal kingdom.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Agricultural pests
ISBN : UOM:39015060926212

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Proceedings - Vertebrate Pest Conference by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Agricultural pests
ISBN : UCLA:L0073066086

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Proceedings, Tenth Vertebrate Pest Conference by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dawn Day Biehler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295804866

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Pests in the City by Dawn Day Biehler Pdf

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space. Community activists and social reformers strived to control pests in cities such as Washington, DC, Chicago, Baltimore, New York, and Milwaukee, but such efforts fell short when authorities blamed families and neighborhood culture for infestations rather than attacking racial segregation or urban disinvestment. Pest-control campaigns tended to target public or private spaces, but pests and pesticides moved readily across the porous boundaries between homes and neighborhoods. This story of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats reveals that such creatures thrived on lax code enforcement and the marginalization of the poor, immigrants, and people of color. As Biehler shows, urban pests have remained a persistent problem at the intersection of public health, politics, and environmental justice, even amid promises of modernity and sustainability in American cities. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9PFxLY7K4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw

Author : Arnold Mallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Beneficial insects
ISBN : WISC:89043725738

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Handbook of Pest Control by Arnold Mallis Pdf

Rats and mice; Silverfish; Springtails; Cockroaches; Crickets; Earwigs; Termites; Dry rot fungi; Wood-boring, book-boring, and related beetles; Psocids of book lice; Bedbugs and other bugs; Clotes moths; Hide and carpet beetles; Ants; Bees and wasps; Stored product pests; Lice; Fleas; Flies, gnats, and mosquitoes; Spiders; Mites; Ticks; Miscellaneous household pest; Chemical used in controlling household pests; Household fumigation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Rodents
ISBN : 1863203567

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Rats, Mice and People by Anonim Pdf

Rodents are a key mammalian group, and ar highly successful in many environments throughout the world. Indeed, they constitute more than 42% of the known mammalian species. In many instances, rodents provide major benefits to the environment as bio-engineers, but the conservation status of quite a number of species is listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources as 'at risk', 'threatened' or 'endangered'. However, some rodent species (less than 5%) are pests and cause significant losses to agricultural crops in many regions of the world. Rodents do not recognise international boundaries, different human cultures, or economic standards-they are major agricultural, urban and social pests across much of the developed and developing world. In Asia alone, the amount of grain eaten by rodents in rice fields each year would provide enough to feed 200 million Asians for a year, with rice providing 50-60% of their daily calorific intake. Many rodent species are also reservoirs of organisms that cause debilitating diseases in humans and livestock.

Author : Lynwood A. Fiedler,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 9251034478

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Rodent Pest Management in Eastern Africa by Lynwood A. Fiedler,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Author : Michael H. Parsons,Chelsea Gardner Himsworth,Mathew Samuel Crowther,Claire M. Jardine
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889635030

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Trends in Urban Rodent Monitoring and Mitigation: Improving Our Understanding of Population and Disease Ecology, Surveillance and Control by Michael H. Parsons,Chelsea Gardner Himsworth,Mathew Samuel Crowther,Claire M. Jardine Pdf

Author : Robert M. Corrigan,Dan Moreland
Publisher : G I E Pub
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1883751160

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Rodent Control by Robert M. Corrigan,Dan Moreland Pdf

Author : Chemical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UCAL:B5031578

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Chemical Society Reviews by Chemical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Publishes short introductory overviews of topics of current interest across the chemical sciences. The philosophy of the journal is to introduce chemists not familiar with the field under discussion to the most recent thinking and developments. Authors are asked to provide background and historical context to the review as well as a clear but concise guide to current thought.