Pest Management Professional, September 2011
Continued from page 103 This issue also affects wildlife that rely on the species as prey including eagles hawks badgers weasels foxes and burrowing owls Furthermore prairie dogs serve as the exclusive food source for endangered blackfooted ferrets a species thats sensitive to sylvatic plague which makes this condition particularly troubling In years past numerous government wildlife and non profit agencies have applied Bayers DeltaDust insecticide to prairie dog burrows to help break the disease cycle The product provides fast knockdown of fleas and one application helps control the pests for up to two years thereby reducing guardians The fleatransferred sylvatic plague also affects wildlife that rely on prarie dogs as prey 104 September 2011 Pest Management Professional mypmp net
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