PENGARUH MODEL PERANGKAP TIKUS SINGLE LIVE TRAP DAN SHERMAN SNAP TRAP TERHADAP JUMLAH TIKUS YANG TERPERANGKAP DI DAPUR PT.X

Abstract

Rats become pests that cause losses. PT. X has a kitchen to serve lunch to all employees
and in the kitchen there are rats with a trap success rate of 4% and losses are experienced
such as some food stocks in the kitchen being bitten by rats so that the food stocks cannot
be reused. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the modified Sherman trap
model of snap trap and single live trap on the number of rats trapped in the PT.X kitchen.
This type of research is an experimental research with a post-test only research design. The
population of all rats in the kitchen area of PT.X. The treatment given was 2 treatments,
namely single live trap treatment and Sherman snap trap treatment. The data collection
technique counted the number of rats trapped, the number of traps set is three Sherman
snap traps and three single live traps set for 5 days with shrimp paste bait. The number of
rats caught in the Sherman snap trap was 4 with a catch rate of 6%, in the single live trap
there were no rats caught. The results of the study after analysis using the Mann-Whitney
test showed that the P-value was 0.014 < α (0.05), meaning that there was a significant
difference between the two groups of data. The implication of this research is that the
kitchen manager of PT. X can use a Sherman snap trap for trapping activities in the kitchen.
The trapping activities are carried out with suggestions to vary the layout of the trap
placement, replacement of bait that is more varied according to the type of food preferred
by the rats, namely tubers such as cassava, sweet potatoes or can use bait of corn and grilled
coconut.