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If you suspect that your kitchen is being visited
by something during the night such as mice or roaches and you cannot locate their
hiding place or method of entry, try sprinkling flour all around the edges of
floor mounted cupboards and walls. A light dusting of about six inches in width
is about right. Also cover entrance and exit door floor areas as well. If you
suspect that they are coming in by a window dust the windowsill too.
In the
morning examine the floor area carefully. You should find that small footprints
have appeared in the flour and even small trails leading across the floor or windowsills.
By tracing these tracks you should be able to locate the entry point or hiding
place. You may find that a magnifying glass will help tracing any fine powder
trails across the floor.
Once you have found the entry point or hiding place
you can treat the area with a suitable compound or simply block it up. No more
night time visitors.
Most small household pests can be trapped by putting
down lengths of double-sided sticking tape such as carpet tape or parcel tape.
You can stick it directly to the floor or you may find it easier for removal to
apply the tape to some cardboard, making a kind of pad. Just place the tape or
pads in an area that you think they will have to cross.
Alternatively make
up a large square of sticky tape either on the floor or on a large piece of cardboard
and place that on the floor. The tape does not have to cover the whole of the
square as long as the outer edges are all covered that should be sufficient. You
can then bait the centre with some foodstuff that they may be attracted to.
Virtually all, small household pests such as roaches ect, find it impossible to
escape once in contact with adhesive of the tape.
You should find most of
them securely stuck to the tape. Even if initially they where trapped just by
one leg or foot, in their struggle to free themselves they usually end up in an
even worse situation.
Dispose of the tape or pads as you see fit.
See
also - Cats & Dogs, Mice, Mites, Slugs, Wasps, Flies, and Woodlice from -
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A more effective bait for the conventional mousetrap
is fruit and nut chocolate. In certain areas some mice may prefer other things
for example, Tuna fish can sometimes be quite effective. It is true that mice
like cheese but they do like other foods and are better attracted to them. It
is worth experimenting with.
When using conventional traps consideration of
the location of them can be of great importance to increase the capture effectiveness.
In a typical room or kitchen for example mice will run around the edges near to
the skirting board and walls because they feel safer there so this is where you
should locate them placing the active part of the trap nearest to the wall.
Another
way of catching mice without harming them is by using a milk bottle, preferably
one with very curved sides. Place the bottle parallel to the wall at a 45 degree
angle using a cardboard box or similar for support and construct a ramp leading
up to the neck of the bottle, this may be made of cardboard, wood or whatever
you have to hand. Bait the bottle with bits of crumbled up chocolate biscuit.
Leave overnight.
It works quite simply by the mouse detecting the food in
the bottle but to get there it has to go up the ramp and down into the bottle.
Once in the bottle the steep sides prevent it from getting out so when you come
along you have a live mouse inside to do with as you wish.
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