Pest Control: Field Mice and Natural Approaches to Eliminating Them

As it starts to get colder here in the northeast part of the country we have to be particularly right about protecting our homes from field mice. In this narrative we look at some low and no cost solutions that may work to eliminate field mice from your home.

Pest Control: Field Mice and Natural Approaches to Eliminating Them

These puny creatures get cold just like we do, and in the fall, start finding for a warm place to spend the winter. They admittedly love old houses, as the wood frames and many cracks and other openings offer very puny resistance to their entry.Field mice are resourceful, small, and very fast. They are surprisingly intelligent. And they prefer to ponder a explication to a problem, such as how to get into your house, if they are afforded sufficient time to do so.

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Pest Control: Field Mice and Natural Approaches to Eliminating Them

They are loosely associated to rats but are much smaller; about 4 inches long with a hairless tail which is as long as the body. Their fur is regularly gray, white, black, or brown. They are named field mice because their natural habitat is found in the grass of the rolling fields.They have much smaller teeth than rats and they have very sharp claws. As mentioned, they can move very fast and people often narrative that they first realized that they had a field mice infestation when they happened to see a blur out of the projection of their eye.

Pest Control: Field Mice and Natural Approaches to Eliminating Them

Pest Control: Field Mice and Natural Approaches to Eliminating Them

The base field mouse prefers a moderate atmosphere and the fall season signals to them that it is time to find inside accommodations. They are often motivated to burrow inside your home by the smell of food.They are notorious scavengers and will live in the walls of your home, advent out only to eat. They have many natural enemies, including: wolves, bears, cats, dogs, snakes, and owls. Their nocturnal nature helps to keep them safe as a good whole of their enemies sleep while the field mouse is awake.

So now, how do we get rid of these unwanted visitors? Below are a whole of home remedies to get rid of field mice. We will first arrival the problem finding at non-poisonous solutions:

Steel Wool - Field mice are very small. They can insinuate themselves into the smallest crack or crevice. An opportunity as small as 2 inches wide is large sufficient for a field mouse to enter. Use steel wool to stuff into any holes, cracks or crevices that you see exterior your home, in your basement, walls or in your attic. A particularly popular haunt of these small creatures is under the kitchen sink, so be sure to put steel wool into any openings under there.

Soda Pop - Amazingly, these puny guys love soda pop. Put a saucer of the sweet stuff where they are likely to get at it. The mice will drink the soda and die. Apparently, it is the carbonization that does them in.

Mashed Potatoes (instant variety) - Place instant mashed potatoes near where you calculate the mice are hiding. They will eat the potatoes which will swell up in their tiny stomachs before they can be digested, thereby killing the mice. Unfortunately, they will probably die in the walls which may furnish a smell.

Plaster of Paris with Chocolate - Mix dry chocolate powder with dry plaster of Paris. Place it where the mice live. The mice will eat the chocolate plaster and then go out in search of water. The plaster will kill them but, unlike the situation with the mashed potatoes, there is a good opportunity that they will die exterior of your house while searching for water.

These low-cost solutions may prove to be all that you need to rid your home of field mice. If these treatments do not work, you may need something stronger. Look for part 2 of this narrative for stronger solutions to your field mice problem.

Pest Control: Field Mice and Natural Approaches to Eliminating Them

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