Independent scientific reviews

and official documents on 1080

1080 is not good at killing mice

date	authors	source	name	quote
2011	Nugent, G., Warburton, B., Thomson, C., Sweetapple, P. & Ruscoe, W.A.	Wildlife Research 38: 249-259	Effect of prefeeding, sowing rate and sowing pattern on efficacy of aerial 1080 poisoning of small-mammal pests in New Zealand	“For rats, two prefeeds resulted in the highest reductions but sowing rate had no effect . For mice, post-poisoning indices were often high, indicating low effectiveness.”
2009	Fisher, P. & Airey, A.T.	Department of Conservation DOC Research & Dev Series 305-308 Feb-March	Factors affecting 1080 pellet bait acceptance by house mice (Mus musculus)	“Current multi-species pest management approaches in mainland New Zealand include broad-scale aerial application of sodium fluoroacetate (1080) to control brushtail possums and ship rats, but this has not proven to be reliably effective against mice, particularly when rat numbers are suppressed (Gillies 2002; Sweetapple & Nugent 2005). The reasons for this are unclear, but avoidance of 1080 by mice is a potentially significant contributing factor in failures of 1080 operations to produce high mortality in wild mouse populations.”
2009	Fisher, P. & Airey, A.T.	Department of Conservation DOC Research & Dev Series 305-308 Feb-March	Factors affecting 1080 pellet bait acceptance by house mice (Mus musculus)	“the addition of 1080 to the RS5 formulation substantially reduces its acceptability to mice. The very low acceptance by mice of bait containing 0.08% 1080 in Trial 1 and of bait containing 0.002% 1080 in Trial 2 supports the finding of O’Connor et al. (2005) that mice can detect and avoid 1080 in cereal pellet bait.”
2009	Fisher, P. & Airey, A.T.	Department of Conservation DOC Research & Dev Series 305-308 Feb-March	Factors affecting 1080 pellet bait acceptance by house mice (Mus musculus)	“However, our results showed that pre-feeding mice with non-toxic RS5 cereal pellet baits was not followed by an increase in acceptance of the same bait type containing 0.15% 1080, suggesting that previous exposure to the bait type is unlikely to be an important factor determining acceptance of 1080 baits by mice. On the basis of the results reported here, we believe a micro-sampling strategy, taste and learned poison shyness are responsible for poor 1080 bait acceptance by mice.”
2013	Shapira, I., Walker, E., Brunton, D.H. & Raubenheimer, D.	NZ Journal of Ecology 37(1): 33-40	Responses to direct versus indirect cues of predation and competition in naïve invasive mice: implications for management	“Mice are among the most destructive invasive species in New Zealand (Atkinson 2006) but are seldom targeted during pest control operations.”
2011	Jones, C., Pech, R., Forrester, G., King, C.M., Murphy, E.C.	Wildlife Research, 38: 131-140	Functional responses of an invasive top predator Mustela erminea to invasive meso-predators Rattus rattus and Mus musculus, in New Zealand forests	“Management of this suite of introduced species [in NZ] needs to avoid cascading threats when eruptions of rodents lead to more stoats (e.g. King 2002), perverse outcomes when removal of ship rats results in more mice (e.g. Innes et al. 1995, Tompkins and Veltman 2006)”