urbpan | Last day in Jersey: pest control stuff (Reply)

This post may have a more narrow audience than most of mine. It may be of interest only me, in fact. This post will help me organize my eventual presentation about my class.

This picture shows the now-repaired electronics in the First Impressions exhibit. When it was originally built, the wiring was exposed. The electronics controlled the shift doors. Soon after the building was completed, mice chewed through the wiring. Repairing the damage cost £3000.

The bowl-within-a-bowl food dish minimizes the amount of food spillage.

These signs are on all the outdoor concessions tables, and on all the food trays.

These containers are pest resistant, but in North America gray squirrels chew into the top.

When this aviary was built it was made with pests in mind--except for where the straight line of wood met the irregular stone wall. This will need to be filled with mesh or caulk to keep rodents out.

Durrell Wildlife keepers are serious about pest control!

A detail I missed earlier at the bat tunnel: the weeds are mowed about 6 feet away from the exhibit, to reduce the amount of cover for rats.

I burst out laughing when I saw these improvised bays. Apparently mosquitoes are not a serious pest issue in Jersey.

The trash area of the zoo had the usual scavengers.

Their pest control guy had a nicer vehicle than mine.

His office was separate from the rest of the zoo.

The zoo has red squirrels, which they do not control: in the rest of Britain red squirrels are quickly disappearing due to competition with introduced gray squirrels. To keep young red squirrels from developing the habit of feeding on the ground (where the rodenticide bait stations are) they deliberately feed them in feeding stations mounted on trees.