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. 2020 Nov 3;10:18901. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75780-5

Table 4.

Evaluation of the respective control measures and identified needs for clarification from the expert interviews made in Germany.

Control measure Evaluation Quotation
Evaluation of the respective control measures
EO Less convincing measure and hardly practicable implementation perspective

It won't work to ask an older woman to bring a bottle of lavender oil and always put a drop inside… But I do have my cent in my wallet

Everything that costs money will not be made

Bti Is largely rejected I mean, if you can’t do it in a biological way, then you shouldn’t do it at all. We have a huge loss of songbirds anyway
Eurocent coins High potential for implementation; however only a part of the cemetery visitors seemed to be motivated People get rid of the stuff they unnecessarily have in their wallets
Topic Quotation
Identified needs for clarification
Public relation and information

This requires a clever, broad-based image campaign, and educational work must be carried out. But of course this is a tough undertaking

If I transport this accordingly in the media, then the willingness of people will also increase. Especially in the cemetery area I have to inform the older people and they have to be informed with normal media like newspapers and not over the internet. A 70-year-old grandmother who puts a bouquet on her husband's grave then read in the newspaper that she had to put a cent in it, and then she does

Actual efficacy of the substance I can’t imagine it working
Dose and concentration How many coins in what time intervals?
Side effect of copper coins e.g. on cut flowers, soil, planting, other organisms such as birds and squirrels If then the bouquet lasts only one or two days instead of one week…

Quotations indicate direct remarks from the CATI partners. EO: Essential oil. Bti: Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis.