Nevertheless, some species likerats and mice are pests in houses, agricultural crops, and food storage. Rodent pests can transmit more than 20 pathogens to humans. The bubonicplague was responsible for the death of 25 million people just in Europein the 14-17th centuries. The three main rodent pests to human are thecommon rat, roof rat, and the house mouse. Each year rodents damageagricultural crops and produce worth of an estimated 30 billion U.S. dollars.
Rodents are an important part of the diet of many carnivorous mammals andbirds.
Only a few species are hunted and eaten by humans. These titles areselected from a wide array of technical and professional journals andvother periodicals and are listed as a service to aid the worldwide IPMcommunity sift through the thousands of paper and articles published eachmoth. IPMlit broadly groups listed papers by pest or tactic categories,i.e., Biocontrol, Entomology, Nematology, Plant Pathology, Vertebrate Management,and general. Description, habitsand control techniques.