Yesterday, I had a chance to talk with Dovid Davis, the Director of A # 1 Pest Control of Baltimore, Maryland. He asked me what I wanted to learn about, and I answered mice. “Okay,” he said, “We’ll talk about mice.”
Dovid told me that mice are usually 2-3 inches long, and range in weight from half an ounce to one and a half ounces. Color wise, mice are brown or grey. Some of the things they prefer, food wise, include cereal, fruit, vegetables and meat.
Mice don’t eat a lot of food at any one time. They tend to nibble 20-30 times a day. But altogether, their daily consumption of food is less than 1/10th of an ounce.
There are some interesting facts about mice that Dovid said people should know. Mice are excellent climbers. They can climb up on walls; they can climb up on furniture.
However, the range of how far they travel is less than 30 feet, in a day. So they won’t go more than 30 feet for food water or shelter. Since their range of movement is restricted, if their food source is more than 30 feet away, they’ll move their nest.
We don’t often see mice, because they are by nature nocturnal creatures. So their running around, their foraging for food, and new nesting areas takes place after the sun goes down, and before the sun rises. Most people don’t realize, that when mice travel, and they are healthy they travel at 12 feet per second. And that’s why it’s so hard to catch them. And one mouse, the average mouse, makes approximately 50 droppings a day. Ugghh!
At this point, I had heard enough and just wanted to know how to catch the critters, and get them out of my home. Dovid noted that traditionally we catch mice with mousetraps. If the traps don’t work or if you prefer not picking up traps with a dead mouse in them, you can use rodenticide. The rodenticide, it is important to note must be placed in areas which are non-visible and not accessible to either children or pets.It generally takes 72 hours for them to be attracted to the bait, to eat it, and to die.
I wanted to know what happens to the mice when they die, because no one wants dead smelly mice lying around their house or kitchen. But Dovid assured me that the poison makes the mice thirsty so they tend to go outside and eat grass and drink water, and die outside. But if they do die inside the house they are only odorous for no more than 72 hours. Then they start to disintegrate.
Well I don’t know about you, but I am not crazy about the idea of smelly decaying mice in my house, even for less than 72 hours. However, it does beat having live mice!
My thanks to Dovid Davis of A # 1 Pest Control of Baltimore Maryland, a quality Baltimore pest control company
for teaching us something about mice control . And that’s it for another episode of “Day in the Life of Dovid Davis Pest Specialist.” Folks, I hope you enjoyed reading this report, and I wish you a pest-free day.
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