“The eagle may soar; beavers build dams!”

Bill Vaughan

Beavers are referred to as “Engineers of Nature.” Unlike other animal beavers also play important role in preserving ecosystem by building dams to control flooding in monsoon and also as storing water for summer. Beavers are truly incredible creatures!

They are the second largest rodents found in Northern Hemisphere such as in North America, Europe and Asia where they are close to humans. Beavers have large head and paddle shaped broad tail. In a variety of aquatic habitats, such as rivers, streams, lakes and wetlands, these creatures can be found. They are active in their ponds throughout the winter season also. As they are herbivores, they prefer to eat leaves, tree barks, roots and aquatic plants. Sometimes they even found eating some cultivated crops such as potatoes, mushroom, berries and soybean. Even if river banks or lakes are buried by them, they still create a living hood on it by building the dams. Even by using their sharp teeth and powerful jaws they gnaw tress and create logs. Even though they are marvel in engineering but indeed they are frustration of farmers and locals. Let’s look onto some evidences.

Farmer troubles with beaver dam

Franklin County, IL | January 09, 2019

Farmers near wetlands say beaver dams have been a problem forever. In fact, a man died recently in Washington County, Missouri while trying to clear a beaver dam by hand, according to the county sheriff. Those situations all come from the way beaver dams affect waterways. Delehunt said when they build dams; it slows the water flow, allowing water to rise. This builds up pressure and can completely wash away pathways and flood roads.

For the farmer, Hood said these problems are detrimental to crop yield. The overflowing water ways can flood fields making it impossible to take heavy farm equipment on them, break levees and do the same things, or blow out levees on rivers and fill fields with large debris. On top of that, Hood said beavers will also steal grains like corn and soybeans to store for food.

Beavers cause flooding around Guskie Pond

Monroe | July 26, 2020

Animal Control Officer Ed Risko carried a chainsaw, while wading into the water of Guskie Pond Thursday morning. A large pipe, which had allowed water to flow through a dam of sticks and mud, had been moved away by beavers, causing flooding in the surrounding neighborhood. Risko dug away debris and cut a log atop the pipe, freeing it, so it could be moved back into place.

This was the secondary dam. Beyond it, the pond widened. Further from the spot, a little ways passed an area of lily pads, larger piles of sticks cutting across the pond formed the main dam. Beavers moved into Monroe in 1992, building their first dam at Hattertown and Judd roads, according to Risko. Since then, Risko has been placing vent pipes, which are called water level control devices, in beaver dams throughout town to alleviate property damage from flooding.

“The only way the state allows us to control beavers is to control the water level,” he explained. Risko has been called back to Guskie Pond, located along Huntingtown Road, several times over the years. Beavers first moved there in 1994. Aside from causing tree and flood damage for area residents, beavers caused a section of Huntingtown Road to collapse, a little over a decade ago, when they built a lodge beneath the street.

In 2011, Masuk student Matthew Morabito, a Boy Scout with Troop 163, worked with Risko to come up with a design to get water flowing through the main dam for his Eagle Scout Project. It involved the installation of five pipes. It solved flooding problems for a while, but it has become a problem once again. One of locals said, “This has caused a serious problem to our property. We have lost quite a bit of our land that has become flooded and under water also drawing more mosquitoes. The water has come so far up our property that out electric fence is now under water.”

Busy beaver causes outage for more than 10,000 in Aroostook County

Caribou | December 21, 2020

A “very ambitious beaver” chewed down a tree between Fort Kent and Frenchville on Dec. 21, resulting in a power outage that left more than 10,000 in Aroostook County without power, according to Versant spokesperson Judy Long. 

By 3:55 p.m., roughly half an hour after the outage first occurred, 2,389 customers in Fort Kent were without power, representing more than 98 percent of the town’s customers. Additionally the outage affected 1,943 in Madawaska, 785 in Caribou, 746 in Eagle Lake and 620 in Frenchville. 

Versant spokesperson Judy Long said they were able to isolate the area where the fault originated and get all customers back online within a couple hours. The next morning, crews conducted a patrol of the area and found that the outage was caused by a tree that had fallen on a transmission line between Frenchville and Fort Kent. And In the process of removing the tree and getting things repaired, workers discovered the beaver’s marks on the tree, and determined that the large rodent was responsible for the downed line.

Basically beavers reside near residential area as long the conditions are favorable for them. So to avoid any flooding or other damages like power outage, damaging crops or trees and to balance ecosystem, it is essential to keep them away rather than culling them!

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Rats and rodents pose a humungous problem for hotel owners and authorities today. Their numbers are overwhelming and their presence is revolting! In spite of their tiny stature, the problems they carry are huge and many. At places like hotels and restaurants, their presence is especially horrifying because of the implications they pose. No one ever likes to see a rat running or a cockroach scurrying out of the kitchen where the food just they ate was prepared.

Rats, however, find restaurant kitchens very tempting. For them, it is an easy, unlimited food source. They like to live in the ceilings, in the food storage units, and also utensil cabinets. The leftover food, which is usually thrown in dumpsters nearby also attract rodents in huge numbers. As soon as they find a convenient place, not only do they spread filth but they also start breeding. This brings about an endless circle of rats and mice thriving in the place.

Although the management tries their best to keep rodents away, it is a recurring problem and it happens more than one would like for it to happen. Customers find themselves in the horrible situation of seeing rats and cockroaches in the restaurants they are dining in. Food safety and hygiene become a very important issue that is compromised when the kitchens and storage units are rodent-ridden. These rodents bring with them a plethora of pathogenic germs. They can gnaw on wires, cables and other structurally important things causing large-scale losses for the hotels. Such situations are most unfortunate for hotel management authorities. If reported to and caught by the food safety authority, it can lead to permanent shutting down of the outlet. Food safety practices have become stricter over the years. Restaurants that do not maintain their hygiene standards and do not comply with the food legislation have either paid hefty fines or have been served discontinuation notices.

Some evidence of the same are given below:

COCKROACHES, RAT DROPPINGS AMONG REASONS FOR 42 FOOD BUSINESS CLOSURES IN 2020

IRELAND

08/01/2021 | 11:40 AM

JAMES COX

Evidence of rodent infestations and the presence of cockroaches were among the reason for the closure of 42 food businesses in 2020.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today stated that 42 Enforcement Orders were served on food businesses for breaches in food safety legislation in 2020, a decrease of 67 per cent in comparison to 125 Enforcement Orders served in 2019.

The drop in numbers largely reflects the impact of Covid-19, where large numbers of food service businesses were temporarily closed for long periods throughout the year, and is not necessarily due to improved food safety practices.

The FSAI reiterated the importance of robust food safety management systems and stressed that the legal responsibility lies with food businesses to ensure that the food they sell is compliant with food safety legislation and is safe to eat.

Between January 1st and December 31st, 2020, 31 Closure Orders, two Improvement Orders and nine Prohibition Orders were issued by environmental health officers in the Health Service Executive (HSE), veterinary inspectors in the local authorities and officers of the FSAI on food businesses throughout the country.

Filthy conditions

The types of recurring food safety issues that led to Enforcement Orders in 2020 were: unregistered and unsupervised food businesses; filthy conditions; evidence of rodent infestations and rodent droppings; the presence of cockroaches; failure to maintain temperatures of foodstuffs; unsuitable food storage facilities; and improper or lack of water facilities.

Dr Pamela Byrne, chief executive, FSAI stressed the serious nature of a food business being served an Enforcement Order.

She said: “While in a normal year it would be very encouraging to see such a substantial drop in the need for Enforcement Orders, in 2020, however it is likely that most of the reduction reflects the temporary closure of food businesses for many months due to COVID-19 restrictions. Notwithstanding this, 42 Enforcement Orders are still too many, as it shows that, unfortunately, there continues to be a minority of food businesses not complying with their legal requirements.”

“All food businesses must recognise that they are legally bound to ensure that the food they produce is safe to eat. Consumers have a right to safe food. Food businesses must comply with food law and all breaches of food safety legislation will be dealt with to the full extent of the law,” Ms. Byrne added.    

NEW YORK CHIPOTLE FORCED TO CLOSE DUE TO AVOCADO-EATING RATS

New Delhi Published: Dec 10, 2020

A rat helping a chef churn out lip-smacking food can only happen in movies like Ratatouille. In reality, rats are a menace to hotels and restaurants. The rodent may be an important part of ecosystem, food chains and whatnot, nobody wants anything to do with rats around their food.

A sustained onslaught from rats has brought a branch of fast-food giant Chipotle to its knees. These rats not only took liking to Avocado, the favourite snack staple of New Yorkers, but also attacked staff of the restaurant, as per news reports.

This branch of Chipotle is located in Upper Manhattan.

“It’s pure chaos every time a rat appears,” an employee named Melvin Paulino was quoted by New York Post as saying.

The rat infestation is so much that even though the restaurant is shut, employees have to come to clean-up so that the problem doesn’t get worse.

The issue began in summer this year when the staff found half-eaten Avocados. The rats took particular liking to the expensive fruit so much that the staff was forced to keep Avocados inside freezers just to save them from rats.

But then, more issues started. Bags of rice were found to have been chewed open, the rice eaten. And the mice also took to chewing electric wires that resulted in problems for computer systems in the store.

Efforts were made to contain the damage. But the problem became so big that the store could no longer handle orders as computer systems and wires were too badly damaged by the rats. Such situations are extremely scary. To think that, all our defence systems have constantly failed when faced by these nettlesome little rodents, is worrisome. The high-tech security networks developed for keeping rats at bay have all proven to be only temporary. All solutions for their control and management are short-term and the rodents always seem to come back.

However, C-Tech Corporation has the perfect solution to keep them away and forever! We manufacture a range of extremely low toxicity, extremely low hazard, and environment-friendly rodent repellent products. Our product, Rodrepel™, is a blend of green chemistry and smart technology. It acts through a series of highly developed intricate mechanisms ensuring that rodents are kept away from the target application. Moreover, our eco-friendly product does not kill the target species but only repels them.

The product triggers a fear response in rodents thus protecting the application. It causes severe temporary distress to the mucous membrane of the rodents due to which the pest stays away from the application. The product triggers an unpleasant reaction in case if the pest tries to gnaw away the application. After encountering the above-mentioned emotions, the animal instinctively perceives it with something it should stay away from and stores this information for future reference. The fact that certain rodents are repelled is mimicked by other rodents as well. Thus, the other rodents too stay away from the applications. The unpleasant experience is imprinted within the animal’s memory and passed on to its progeny.

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Our product in the form of a spray is very easy to use. It can be sprayed on the infested area to repel the rodents and prevent them from entering.

The LD50 value of Rodrepel™ is 50,000 mg/kg making it non-poisonous, which is an important parameter to be considered in the food industry. By using our products, you can get an effective and long-lasting solution against rodent nuisance.

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“Only run-down areas attract rats!“

The most common myth about rats is they can only be found in slum areas, but the truth is rats can appear anywhere. As long as they find food and shelter, they can make themselves at home in any area. Just like that there are many other myths and rumors about rats in terms of their behavior, way of communication and solutions for damage caused by them. For a proper rodent control it is essential to know the difference between the facts and myths. Here are some facts about rodents and an ecofriendly preventive measure for the damage caused by them!

Like other mammals rats also form a family group. They nourish each other, chase each other and sleep together and try to defend their group from stranger rats. As rats are capable to adapt themselves in human environment, usually they are found in cities and rural areas. Rats have poor vision but excellent hearing so they communicate by producing ultrasound which is not audible by humans. Sometimes they create some noise to express their pain or distress which is audible to humans and even scrapping teeth is another way of showing distress in rats. The pheromones play a special role in social behavior of rats. Basically it triggers a warning sign within the rats if there is any danger or gives a signal to interact with opposite sex. Let’s have a look on experimental study on how rats communicate!

Mind-reading rodents: Scientists show ‘telepathic’ rats can communicate using brain-to-brain

February 28, 2013 | Independent TV

Scientists have shown that it is possible to transmit instructions from one animal to another by a telepathic-like process of brain-to-brain communication. They believe it is the start of what they are calling “organic” computing based on networks of interconnected brains. Pairs of laboratory rats have communicated with each other using microscopic electrodes implanted into their brains. One rat was able to pass on instructions to the other rat in a separate cage using a system of electronic encoding. “As far as we can tell, these findings demonstrate for the first time that a direct channel for behavioral information exchange can be established between two animal’s brains without the use of the animal’s regular forms of communication,” they say.

One rat in each pair, the “encoder”, detected the physical signals of where to find a food reward and pass on these instructions to the second “decoder” rat, which was able to use the encoded signals of the first rat to find a similar reward in its own cage without any further help. The scientists also showed that the direct brain-to-brain communication, carried by fine wires connecting one rat to the other, can be extended over the internet, with rats in Brazil communicating with rats in North Carolina, some 7,500km away. These experiments showed that we have established a sophisticated direct communication linkage between brains.

Earlier this month, Professor Nicolelis revealed that he had given laboratory rats a “sixth sense” by connecting up their nervous systems to a sensor that can detect infrared light, which is normally invisible to rats as well as humans. Professor Nicolelis inserted micro-electrode implants into the rats’ brains to record the nerve activity associated with making a decision. He then put these signals through a computer encoder which transmitted them via wires to the second rat, which quickly learned how to decode them for its own use. Each rat was trained to find water in its cage based on the type of signals they were given. However, during the experiment only the encoder rat was exposed to these signals and it had to pass on the right instructions to the second, decoder rat which managed to find the reward in about 70 per cent of cases. So basically when two rats are paired up they establish a quick sensory feedback. If one fails to find the reward, the other one modify its brain to find that reward.

This experiment can be very useful to control the aggressive behavior of rats especially when they are trying to damage various things. Rodents can actually cause property damage and transmit various diseases thus, it is essential to control them with proper strategies.

We all know “Prevention is better than cure!” So, Using the traps or poisonous food won’t keep the rats away as their population grows continuously by a factor of 10 in just 15 weeks. Their teeth grow continuously which make the discomfort in them as a result, they keep gnawing the things.

In order to maintain the ecosystem C Tech Corporation found an alternative to prevent rodent damage.

The product is called Rodrepel^TM, the name itself suggests repelling the rodents. It is an extremely low toxic product. It repels the rats and other rodents without killing them.

The product is available in various forms. The masterbatches can be used while manufacturing the PVC cables, wires, Agricultural films, pipes, household plastic goods etc. The spray can be directly applied on the packed items to avoid the nuisance. Rodrepel^TM can also be available as paint additives to secure the interior as well as exteriors of property. Rodrepel^TM  in lacquer form can be coated over tree guards, fences, various PVC surfaces, etc. which would ensure a protection against the rodents. As it is mentioned before Rodrepel^TM is extremely low toxic its LD50 value (known as lethal dose which means the amount of chemical given to species to kill about 50% of its population) is 50000mg/kg which is less than any other repellent. By considering safety aspects it does not harm any animal or ecosystem. Rodrepel^TM is completely inert with polymer compounds and used to avoid any rodent infestation.

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