Pest.co.uk, said: “It’s very worrying because this “hybrid resistance” means some common rodenticides simply won’t work. “This, together with a bumper breeding year, means we are in for a heck of a ride in 2021 if we don’t have a very, very cold winter.”Newly released data from the 2019-20 Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use survey of rats reveal the 74% carrying a resistance gene to popular rodenticides.In some UK locations, 20% have two different genes, making them super-resistant.“Although one such rat was found in 2017, this is the first time in the UK that ‘hybrid resistance’ has been found on this scale, with potentially unknown difficulties for pest rodent control,” a campaign spokesman said.There has been a perfect storm of.
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