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Keeping Bait Tasty

Thursday January 26, 2012

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Question:

Does tracking powder placed in a rodent bait station affect the rodent's attraction to the Contrac Blox bait? Is there any rodent bait that is effective against slugs and snails to keep them from eating the bait? These slugs and snails are having a field day on my rodent bait placements.

mitchell, CA

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Answer:

Slugs and Snails just love rodent baits, and particularly formulations like pellets or meal, which they can feed on easily. One suggestion would be to only use paraffin baits, which you may already be doing since you specify Contrac Blox as one bait in use. The anticoagulants and other active ingredients in rodent baits will not affect slugs or snails, so no options there I'm afraid. What you could do would be to... Read more

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