*Avoid Sharing of Strawberries with Birds, Rodents and Other Vertebrate Pests DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104682*

safe for wild birds and although it is important to remember that store bought fruit may have been treated with pesticides. When a pet bird eats pesticide chemicals, it can cause internal damage or even death. For this reason, it is always recommend offering home-grown or organic strawberries to the pet bird if it can be done. If that is not possible, then strawberries should be cleaned before offering them at birds feeder by soaking in a diluted vinegar solution (4 parts water, 1 part vinegar) for 15 min and then thoroughly rinse with fresh water. Also, there can be used white vinegar or apple cider vinegar for washing of strawberries.

It is not necessary to kill all probable pests to protect whole strawberry crop. Diligent pests control can preserve strawberry crop and let Nature to take care of birds, rodents and other pests. Killing of endangered birds or rodents is a crime that can result in civil and criminal penalties. Determine, which species of animals are occurring as pests in orchards, fields or yards of any region, but avoid using control methods that could harm to endangered species before to begin a control program. Such consequences will enable managers to manage or modify landscapes at appropriate levels to increase avian and rodent fauna to real densities.
