Rodent control
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In their natural habitat, rodents live in the fields, forest edges. Closer to the person they make their way with the onset of cold weather, in the event of unfavorable living conditions in the same place. Pests settle in gardens, gardens, cellars, sheds, household outbuildings, houses. Rodent control is conducted in different ways, by methods.An effective set of "tools" varies depending on the location of the tailed animals.
Methods for the destruction of rats, mice
Rodent control has been going on since time immemorial. For the extermination of pests using old proven tools, new products, modern inventions.
- Get rid of rats in the house or in the apartment can be popular methods that involve the use of plants, strongly smelling substances, poison for rats, making baits, traps, traps. Actions are aimed at the destruction of small animals or exile. Traditional methods of struggle include mechanical means of struggle, chemical.
- Professional methods for the destruction of rats and mice consist in the use of special traps, traps, poisonous preparations.
- Biological methods of rodent control are to use the natural enemies of rats, mice - cats, dogs, hedgehogs, and other animals.
- Separately distinguish the modern method of expelling pests using an ultrasonic repeller.
Methods of rodent control are selected individually.Each person selects for himself the best way to destroy rats and mice, the most effective means. You can get rid of pests by your own efforts or you can ask for help from specialized rodent extermination services.
Mechanical methods
Provide physical effects on rodents using professional, improvised traps, traps.
- Modernized designs with advanced features are available. They allow to catch several individuals at once, they are subjected to electric current, they instantly kill or are kept safe and sound in confinement.
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Trapped rats and mice with bait. Use pieces of food, meat, lard, fish, bread, grain, flour. Strong-smelling foods that attract rodents seductive aroma.
- Modern trap-based trap is particularly popular. glue for mice. Sold in tubes with a capacity of 135 g. It is applied on cardboard, plywood, a piece of plastic, oilcloth. Placed in a convenient location, fixed on the floor. Special composition does not allow glue for rats and mice harden under the influence of light, high temperature.Within 2 weeks the trap will catch small mice, big rats. Glue firmly clings to the wool, fixes the animal, makes it impossible to move. The tool can be bought for 150-250 rubles. The most popular drugs - trap, Clean house, Forsythe, Pied Piper, Kotofey.
Self-made trap for mice, rats can be built from improvised means:
- Put a container with water, lay straw on top. Add a few spoons of vegetable oil, scatter grain on the surface. To build a ladder of sticks, twigs, boards.
- 3-5 spoons of vegetable oil are poured into the bottle, shaken to evenly distribute along the walls. Throw corn, another delicacy for rodents. Put the bottle, slightly raising the neck. In such homemade mousetrap easy to please the mouse.
- Turn the bucket over, substitute the wand, and place the bait in the center. The animal will touch the structure when moving, the stick will fall, the pest will be inside the self-made trap.
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If it was possible to detect the nest of rodents, block the exit. Pour the gypsum into the hole, concrete, cover it with earth, shove a rag.
Chemical methods
In the fight against rodents all means are good! Substances with a strong, pungent odor are used to scare away, poisonous drugs for destruction.
There are several groups of rat poison. Some drugs provoke severe poisoning, terrible intoxication, sudden death. Others act slowly, affecting the functioning of the circulatory system. Within 1-2 weeks, rodents die from internal bleeding.
There are poisonous drugs of the old, new generation. Initially poison for rats, mice had an extremely strong effect. Enough of the minimum dose to kill a rodent. Later release of such rat poisons was banned. Replacing came new drugs are not less effective, but safer for humans.
Important!
Do not use for the fight against rodents poison based on lead, thallium, arsenic and other substances dangerous to humans.
Means of the new generation contain zoocoumarins. Substances affect the ability of blood to clot. The liver ceases to produce special substances that resist anticoagulants, internal bleeding begins.
Mummifying agents are added to modern toxic drugs for rodents.The body of the mouse does not decompose, it dries slowly, without creating an unpleasant corpse smell. Poison for rats and mice produced in the form of powder, granules, tablets, pressed briquettes. Mixed in food or used in pure form. Some products contain food additives, flavors.
Pest Repel
The measures of rodent control are aimed at exterminating, expelling pests. For a quick result, it is recommended to combine them. It is possible to scare away rats and mice with the sharp smell of plants, strongly smelling substances, special devices.
- Rodents do not tolerate the smell of garlic, elderberry, walnut, wormwood, mint, tansy, chamomile, black root. In residential areas, you can use essential oil instead of plants. Mint has a positive effect on the nervous system of a person, chamomile calms well. And the rodents from this smell go crazy, flee.
- If the fight against rodents in the garden, in the garden, outbuildings, cellar, you can use kerosene, gasoline, mothballs, ammonia, solvent. Moisten cotton wool, rag, cover the entrance to the hole.Placed in places where rodents were seen. To keep the smell longer, the treated material is placed in a plastic bag, a small hole is made in it.
- Professional ultrasonic scarers are on sale. The devices are powered by electricity, on batteries. Make a sound of a certain frequency. The human ear does not feel it, the rodents react sharply. The effect appears after 2-3 weeks of continuous exposure. rodent ultrasonic repeller. Rats, mice flee. If there is no room for rodents, the animals simply lose their sanity.
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Rats, mice, acutely react to the smell of wool. You can set fire to an old woolen scarf, a ball of thread or a dead rodent body.
Folk ways
For many years of the fight against rodents, mankind has come up with a lot of different ways. The most effective recipes are transferred to a new generation. The old proven methods are used on a par with modern innovative inventions.
- Mix in equal proportions gypsum, flour, close to put a bowl of water. Gypsum, if it gets into the stomach of a rodent, quickly hardens. Together with him all the insides.
- Matchheads dissolve in water. Moisten cottage cheese, cheese, slices of bread. Matches contain sulfur, phosphorus. Components can poison an animal.
- Grind wine corks, roast in lard. In the stomach, the cork swells, leads to a strong deformation of the internal organs, causes death.
- Scatter the ashes. It irritates the skin, mucous membranes, when injected into the stomach provokes pain, indigestion. Ash helps to fight rodents, does not harm the environment.
- Sodium bicarbonate is mixed in equal proportions with flour, sugar. Add water. Leave for swelling. From the "test" roll layer, cut into small pieces. Laid out as a bait.
- Quicklime mixed with malt. Pour into container, leave overnight.
To get a fox terrier dog, a domestic cat with hunter skills. In the barn you can shelter a hedgehog. Together with the chickens to settle the geese, turkeys. Geese are able to stand up for themselves, protect others from the rat, the turkey makes a loud noise, from which rodents scatter.
Toxic substances must be used with safety measures. If the number of rodents does not decrease with time, you should call the experts.With the appearance of rodents in the garage, you need to place traps, handle the details under the hood with a special rat spray for car. In Moscow, sold in specialized stores. For each case has its own effective remedy for rodents.