What type of rodenticide is bromethalin?

Bromethalin is classified as a nonanticoagulant neurotoxin. This means that it affects the nervous system of rodents, leading to paralysis and death, rather than working through the blood-clotting mechanisms that characterize anticoagulant rodenticides. Bromethalin disrupts cellular energy production in the brain and causes neurological damage.

It's important to understand that while anticoagulant rodenticides work by inhibiting blood clotting, leading to bleeding and eventual death after multiple doses, bromethalin acts more quickly and does not require the same repetitive feeding to be effective, thereby posing a different kind of risk to rodents. Residual insecticides, on the other hand, would not be focused on rodent control in the same manner as bromethalin, and bait stations are more of a method of application rather than a specific type of chemical.