EnvironmentThe harmless rat snake guards crops from rats; do not mistake it for the krait
The rat snake is harmless and a farmer's friend, while the night-roaming common krait is deadly; writer Almas Tahmid explains how to tell them apart.
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A Tk 100 bamboo trap catches 300 rats in a season for a Fulbaria farmer
Darul Islam, a farmer in Fulbaria, Mymensingh, builds rat traps from bamboo, jute rope and discarded bicycle or rickshaw tubes; after catching about 300 rats on his 10 kathas in the Aus season, he sells them at Tk 100 each and neighbours are using them in Aman fields.
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The 'chicken thief' Bengal fox is a crop guardian, Panchagarh camera-trap study finds
More than 4,500 video clips over three months show insects at 19 per cent of the fox's diet, birds 18 and rodents 8; listed as vulnerable on Bangladesh's IUCN Red List, the species has no Forest Department programme to protect it.