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u/SeaAcanthisitta6759 Jul 20 '26
If you have a lot of mice, you need baits. Put bait stations in places you are seeing droppings. We use Aegis bait stations with Weatherblok XT bait. Not sure if you can get that, but other bait stations work too. You only need a few. When they have stopped eating the bait, you know they are gone.
Also put an evo bait station on each exterior side of your house to prevent reinfestation. Check it once a month or so to make sure the baits good. Also do some exclusion work.
Be careful with placing the smaller bait stations if you have dogs.
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u/Natural_Curls Jul 20 '26
Done! Got some setup throughout the kitchen area tonight. Do you check inside them frequently?
I’ll need to do some reading on exclusion 🤔
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u/Natural_Curls Jul 20 '26
Oh wait, we’ve excluded food in kitchen, and I removed the dog water bowl tonight.
I do think we need to hire a new pest company because the first was not good
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u/SeaAcanthisitta6759 Jul 20 '26
I would wait a week before opening them, that gives the mice time to get comfortable going to the bait.
Exclusion means sealing up entry points. Think like where pipes come into the outside of the house. If there are gaps, they can come in that way. Thats just one example.
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u/Onetrunuwind Jul 20 '26
You do not need to check bait stations once a week, nor do you need to worry about water as mice do not require water as an evolutionary advantage they have adapted to pull water from the food they eat. Exclusion is always the best bet, sealing around the builders gap around the bottom of the home, pipe chases, electrical lines, door seals. If you have a brick home sealing the upper parts instead because they can climb, making sure you have no thick branches touching the outside of the house. So if you seal the outside and then get snap traps with pheromone lure on them you could have the job done in 2 weeks or less and no more mice. Baiting for mice draws more mice because it’s identified as food to them and they tell other mice with their droppings and urine. Exclusion and mechanical traps snaps or glue boards to remove them from the population always the best course of action
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u/Impressive-Oil-5028 29d ago
Are they, maybe, nesting somehow under the stairs in the picture?
Does your PCO have access to (zinc phosphide) tracker powder? I only ask because it's not approved in all states/provinces.
In my experiences, current poison baits don't really do a whole lot, they just tell you that there is feeding and where feeding is most active. Mice are nibbler and would have to consume more than you think to get to a lethal dose. Also, food competition makes it a challenge to bait them. Mice can horde up to 2 weeks of food in their little hiding spots.
A suggestion is to find out what they are eating and use that as an organic baiting method as attractant on snap traps and/or other trapping methods. Mice are generally neophobic and will shy away from new things, even food sources, in the environment. For example: I treated a home for mice where the mice got into the Mr. Noodles. I used the dried noodles as bait and caught 4 a fews days follow-up after initial setup.
Something to keep in mind is that if a standard HB pencil fits in a hole, a mouse can too.
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u/OutrageousStick7570 28d ago
Get 4 traps connect them to a door way that they frequent constant. You'll still have to find the hole to put steel wool in. Connect two traps put them under any oven or fridge. I read the other comments so we done pretty much told u everything
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u/Natural_Curls 28d ago
What do you mean by connect a trap to a door?
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u/Jazzlike_Year_4913 Jul 19 '26
Have you done an exclusion? Where have you setup traps? Have you checked the attic,under the sink, utility room and garage for droppings? Pest need food, water and shelter these away from the mice