Brown Tree Snake
(Naval Base Guam) Found to be deadly poisonous to snakes, acetaminophen is currently undergoing tests to see if it can rid Guam of the invasive brown tree snake.
According to Dan Vice of the USDA, small amounts of acetaminophen are stuffed into dead mice which are then dropped by helicopter into forested areas.
Each mouse was attached to two squares of cardboard and a streamer of green paper. The streamer could be dropped from a low-flying helicopter and would catch in the upper tree branches of the jungle.Mice with parachutes, eh?
About 200 of the baits and some radio transmitters were dropped from a helicopter on 20 acres of Naval Base Guam on Wednesday as a first test of the system, Vice said.
“We’ve already found all the baits,” he said. “We will go out over the next few nights and find out their fate.”
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