Abstract

 Abstract
 Live traps usually can only trap rats in the first day of trapping because the bait become not luring anymore after the first day of trapping. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in lured rats number between uncombined bait trapping and combined bait trapping.
 This is a quasi-experimental study with a post-test only non-equivalent control group design. Each house has 5 traps setup with 6 replications. One trap was set with combined bait types (rice, anchovy, tofu and roasted coconut) and four other traps set with separated uncombined bait types; (1) rice, (2) anchovy, (3) tofu, (4) roasted coconut. The instruments used were house screening sheets, traps and observation sheets. The data obtained were tested with the Mann-Whitney test.
 The results showed that there were not significant differences in trapped rats number between combined bait and uncombined rice bait (p=0.748), between combined bait and uncombined anchovy bait (p=0.355), between combined bait and uncombined tofu bait (p=1.000), and also between combined bait and uncombined roasted coconut bait (p=0.734). Uncombined anchovies bait trapped rats most. Combined bait and uncombined anchovy bait were most consistent in trapping rats.
Highlights
Rats are vertebrate animals with clever and destructive characters
The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in lured rats number between uncombined bait trapping and combined bait trapping
The uncombined baits consist of some baits which are installed separately everyday
Summary
Rats are vertebrate animals with clever and destructive characters. Rats become important pests in human life, such as in agriculture, plantations, settlements, and health (Mulyana, 2017). In Indonesia, the presence of Rattus argentiventer rats shows a serious problem, where damage to agriculture caused by rats reaches 25% (Lagwen, 2016). Losses caused by rats are damage in the form of corrosion on various household items made of wood, cloth, paper, plastic, metal and electrical equipment, as well as contamination in the form of hair, feces, and urine of rats on various materials human food (Martina et al, 2018)
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