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  2. Nuisance wildlife management - Wikipedia

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    For example, damage by birds or rabbits to ornamental shrubs or garden plants can be reduced inexpensively by placing bird netting over the plants to keep the pests away. On the other hand, fencing out deer from a lawn or garden can be more costly. Materials needed for exclusion will depend upon the species causing the problem.

  3. List of pest-repelling plants - Wikipedia

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    repel roaches, ants, the Japanese beetle, ticks, silverfish, lice, fleas, bedbugs, and root-knot nematodes [2] Citronella grass: repels insects, may deter cats [5] Clovers: repel aphids and wireworms [3] Common lantana: repels mosquitoes [1] Coriander: repels aphids, Colorado potato beetle, and spider mites [3] Cosmos: repel the corn earworm ...

  4. Animal repellent - Wikipedia

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    Scarecrow in a field Rat guards: steel or aluminum discs attached to the mooring line to prevent rats from boarding a ship Ultrasonic bird repeller. An animal repellent consists of any object or method made with the intention of keeping animals away from personal items as well as food, plants or yourself.

  5. Multiple arrests are made in evacuated SoCal neighborhoods ...

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    Multiple people have been arrested in neighborhoods evacuated due to wildfires. Officials said one pair had items that would aid them in carrying out thefts — as well as, strangely, wild opossums.

  6. Brodifacoum - Wikipedia

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    Brodifacoum is a highly lethal 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist anticoagulant poison.In recent years, it has become one of the world's most widely used pesticides.It is typically used as a rodenticide, but is also used to control larger pests such as possums.

  7. Self-anointing in animals - Wikipedia

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    Wild wedge-capped capuchin monkeys (Cebus olivaceus) self-anoint with millipedes (Orthoporus dorsovittatus).Chemical analysis revealed these millipedes secrete two benzoquinones, compounds known to be potently repellent to insects [6] and the secretions are thought to provide protection against insects, particularly mosquitoes (and the bot flies they transmit) during the rainy season.