Rodents are always on the lookout for food, shelter and water when they don’t find favorable conditions during winters. They target human homes because they smell food and track it to your home. Their first target is to invade your exterior where outhouses, barn, or garage offer them immediate shelter. They also smell your trash bins and their contents and in the process find food for their bellies. It is apparent that mice will move in to your homes when outside environments become hostile to them. Especially during winter months rodents find it tough to live in open fields because of shortage of food items and the increased danger of predators picking on them. If mice have managed to get in to your home and are entrenched it is advised that you engage BBPP, most effective mice control services Maple and make plants to exterminate them at once.
Rodent movement and migration takes place during rough weather such as torrential rains, storm or blizzards. These natural calamities ensure that underground habitats of rodents and other crawlers, mammals and other species are flooded with water. This is usually resulting in displacement of rodents and they make a dash to the nearby shelter, namely your house. Your home is the ideal hide out because it offers
- Hiding places that are secretive and ideal for nest building. Mice get into homes via tiny holes, crevices, trees, open doors and windows, foundation, basement etc.
- plenty of construction material for nests such as clothing, paper, plastic, spongy articles, cotton, wires and cables
- Unlimited source of food either in the form of leftovers or freshly packed food items in shelves, containers and sacks of grains, seeds, nuts in the barn. Your garden and water pipe network provide them with water
- Protected shelter such as your indoors and outhouses that importantly hide them from predators like birds and animals
Precautions to take to avoid infestation
- Active inspection of house premises will reveal chinks in the armor of your walls. Plug them with steel mesh, screen, caulk, cement and other material that are impossible for rodents to overcome with their limited arsenal
- Remove food sources from outside and also avoid leaving water in the open.
- Keep garbage cans a little further from your main building and keep the closed with tight fitting lids
- Clean kitchen, dining table and food preparation area thoroughly after dinner and is possible disinfect the spaces so as to erase food smell
- Visit isolated zones of your home regularly and sweep them clean. Rodents like to build nests in isolated and congested places. Do not dump old things like kid’s bikes, sports gear, empty cartons, newspapers, cardboard boxes, and other used things in a heap. They make potential nesting location
- Keep your indoor off food smell such as cleaning the area where you had setup BBQ last night.
- Store food items in metal or thick plastic containers so rodents don’t cut through
- Keep an eye on mice droppings, mice urine and body smell to detect mice
By following the above advice you may achieve fair amount of success in defeating mice invasion. However it is a 24 hour job that you cannot afford to do. Your best option is to call BBPP, the best Pest Control Service Maple and let them tackle the infestation professionally. You can contact the pest control on number 647-910-6315 or by sending mail to info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.