IDENTIFICATION OF RATS AND SHREW IN ARGASOKA AND KUTABANJAR VILLAGE BANJARNEGARA SUB DISTRICT BANJARNEGARA DISTRICT 2014

• Main Authors: Hendri Anggi Widayani, Setiana Susilowati
• Format: Article
• Language: Indonesian
• Published: Balai Litbang P2B2 Banjarnegara 2014-08-01
• Series: Balaba: Jurnal Litbang Pengendalian Penyakit Bersumber Binatang Banjarnegara
• Online Access: http://ejournal.litbang.depkes.go.id/index.php/blb/article/view/3537

ABSTRAKTikus (Ordo Rodentia) merupakan hewan yang mempunyai peranan penting dalam kehidupan manusia baik bersifatmenguntungkan maupun merugikan. Spesies tikus mempunyai habitat masing-masing untuk berkembangbiak. Pemukimanmerupakan habitat tikus untuk memperoleh makanan. Tujuan penelitian untuk menggambarkan keberhasilan penangkapantikus dan mengidentifikasi tikus yang tertangkap di Kelurahan Argasoka dan Kutabanjarnegara. Metode penelitianmenggunakan survei dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Populasi adalah tikus yang berada di Kelurahan Argasoka danKelurahan Kutabanjarnegara. Sampel adalah tikus yang tertangkap menggunakan perangkap sebanyak 100 perangkapyang dipasang di lokasi penelitian selama 2 malam,dengan menggunakan umpan kelapa bakar dan ikan asin. Analisis datasecara deskriptif disajikan dalam bentuk narasi dan tabel distribusi frekuensi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan keberhasilanpenangkapan tikus di Kelurahan Argasoka sebesar 10,5% dan di Kelurahan Kutabanjarnegara sebesar 6%. Tikus yangtertangkap 25 ekor Rattus tanezumi (75,76%), 1ekor R. tiomanicus (3,03%), dan 7 ekor Suncus murinus (21,21%). Tikus dancecurut berjenis kelamin jantan lebih banyak ditemukan (54,54 %) daripada betina (45,45 %).Kata kunci: tikus, keberhasilan penangkapan, identifikasiABSTRACTRat is an animal that have important role to human being, even its profitable or adverse. This species have their own habitatto each depression. The community settlement is one of rat habitat to get food. The research purpose is to measure the trapsuccess of rat and to identify rat species in Argasoka and Kutabanjar Village, Banjarnegara. The research used surveymethod with cross sectional approach. Population were rats those lived in Argasoka and Kutabanjar Village. The samplewere rats those caught using single live traps in Argasoka and Kutabanjar Village, Banjarnegara. Rat trapping wasconducted for 2 nights using 100 single live traps with the roasted coconut and salted fish. Technical analysis is useddescriptively and presented in narrative form and frequency distribution tables. The result showed that the trapped amongothers 25 rats (76%) Rattus tanezumi, 1 rat (3,03%) R. tiomanicus, and 7 rats (21,21%) S. murinus. As much (54,54 %), weremale higher than female rat as much as (45,45 %). Trap success of 8,25 % dominated by R. Tanezumi were found inside thehome (75,76 %), while R. tiomanicus caught in the garden around village (3,03 %), and S. murinus caught inside andoutside home (21,21 %).Key words: rats, trap success, identification