How to put a mousetrap

The fight against mice has been going on since time immemorial, the very first "weapons" were mousetraps. Ready mouse trap sold in specialized stores, manufactured homemade mouse traps. The question remains how to put a mousetrap so that rodents fall into the trap.

Seat selection

The presence of mice is evidenced by a specific smell, excrement, sawdust, dust from wood, plastic, holes in bags of grain, gnawed vegetables, fruits. It is advisable to determine the location of burrows, nests, to observe where pests come from.

Mice always move along the familiar routes familiar to them. Labeled with feces, urine. Recognize their tracks by smell, color, as urine glows in the dark. If it is possible to determine the trajectory, there is no need for a big trick - they set a trap against movement, it’s the end.

In other cases, you just need to install the mousetraps in the intended locations of movement. Rodents like to run along baseboards, under walls, crawl onto window sills, cabinets.

Important!

The mouse will not get caught if it is noisy in the room, it makes no sense to build a mousetrap during the day. The war is fought in the dark, when pests intensify their activities. An exception is if the room is always twilight.

Varieties of traps

Instructions for using the mousetrap depend on its design, as well as the place where you have to wage war.

• The trap of plastic bottles can be used in the garden, garden, cellar. The instruction manual does not contain specific rules. It is enough to dig into the ground, or fix under a slope near the steps, shelves. When the mouse enters a makeshift mouse trap, it remains inside, cannot get out due to slippery walls that are pre-lubricated with vegetable oil.
• It is not necessary to put a trap from a bucket of water under the wall; it can be done in the middle of the room. In order for the mouse to fall into the mousetrap, you need to use a fragrant bait, try to remove other food supplies from the house or room. Grass, leaves, straw, husk are placed on top of the water. Add a little vegetable oil, sprinkle grain, seeds. They put a wand to the bucket, it will serve as a ladder.
• A mechanical trap is convenient in that it kills the rodent immediately or fatally injures. How to charge a mousetrap, there is an instruction. Install in the selected place, fix the bait. Move the pin to the opposite side from the spring. To bend a bracket, fix.

On a note!

When using mechanical or electric mousetrap the location of the structure must be periodically changed. Otherwise, the mouse will learn a new trajectory, will not come across.

A sticky trap is especially popular. A special substance is applied to a dense base - cardboard, a piece of plastic, oilcloth, plywood. It is fixed on a solid surface. Glue for mice possesses instant fixing, does not dry out within 1-2 weeks from the moment of drawing. The substance is applied in a solid line with an interval between strips of 2 cm. For trapping mice, a mousetrap 10 * 20 cm in size is sufficient. A trap is placed in those places where rodents were seen. Preferably near the hole, the nest.

On a note!

An adhesive mousetrap is used to control rodents in the garden. They process the bark of trees at heights of up to 50 cm from the surface of the earth. The trap protects against rodents, harmful insects.

Useful Tips

If the mouse does not come across, a mistake was made somewhere. Instructions for use mousetraps:

• Rodents love twilight, but run to places where light falls. You can set a mousetrap. A flashlight with dim light is directed at it.
• To catch mice, you need choose the right bait. Small rodents like cheese, seeds, grain, cereals, bread, cookies. Sausage, meat, fat are eaten, but without much enthusiasm. This bait is more suitable for rats.
• Check the mousetrap often. The captured dead animal scares off the rest, the mice will begin to explore another territory. A living mouse in a trap will warn others about the danger with a restless squeak.

If a lot of mice divorced in the room, you need to alternate several different methods of struggle. A large army of rodents can cope poison for mice.