Why are there mice inside the building?

Mice are common denizens indoors and outdoors. These rodents are naturally curious and impressively adept creatures that investigate their environment in search of food, comfortable nesting sites and other mice. They frequent nearly all buildings in Cambridge, Boston and elsewhere. They can squeeze through a hole the width of a standard wooden pencil, gnaw through wood and plaster, and they are able to climb and jump like little acrobats. They enter rooms because they can, and often because they detect the odors of food and other mice. Food and candy stored in backpacks, desk drawers, open bowls, and elsewhere are highly attractive to mice. Similarly attractive are food packages (even ones still sealed) and food wastes / residues in trash. Mice will steal food and candy and cache these items in wall voids, within and behind furniture, above ceilings and even within hollow office partition walls. Once mice have located food and places to hide, they have no reason to leave. Mice also readily find each other, and then breed like… well… mice.

There are bait around, why don’t they work?

Call Proffesioanl pest control with free inspection The pest control personnel deploy traps in strategic locations as means to monitor and capture mice and other pests. Many of these traps are baited with an attractant (one of many kinds of food odors), and the traps are inspected and serviced periodically. Just as water flows downhill and electricity follows the path of least resistance, mice will approach foods and food odors as a function of the odor’s composition and relative concentration. Hence, a mouse will more readily visit a drawer or backpack containing candy, or a trash can holding food waste or opened food bags, before it bothers with a tiny bit of attractant on a trap. Traps work most effectively when they provide the only or best source of the attractant. So, you can help drive mice to the traps by securing your food and by eliminating any food Revision Date: 03/04/2020 Page 3 of 5 Copyright © 2020 The President and Fellows of Harvard College wastes every day. Should you find a trapped mouse, please contact your building manager who will then request a visit by pest control or custodial personnel.

Mice now seem far worse since pest control personnel blocked holes and installed door sweeps. Why?

Mice that find themselves trapped in rooms become increasingly hungry as their paths to food and shelter are eliminated. Whereas mice normally venture about at night to seek food, their hunger pangs cause them to be bolder and risk being seen at midday. Similarly, in their desire to escape into wall voids, they may be heard scratching at the recently closed portals. Such sights and sounds cause many folks to mistakenly conclude that mice have become more numerous. Instead, this phenomenon is anticipated and normal. Hunger will more likely cause mice to gravitate to the attractant baits on traps where they should meet their demise. In essence, ‘things seemingly get worse before they get better.’ If there was a method to instantly offer you gratification (to safely and practically eliminate all mice as with a magic wand), you can be sure we’d adopt such a strategy. In the meantime, we encourage you to be patient and to help by denying food to pests

What can I do to reduce the problem?

Faculty, staff and students can and should take all opportunities to help maintain their residences and work sites in a manner that will not attract or support mice or other pests. Specifically, please help us help you by engaging in the following endeavors: • Keep doors closed and ensure that any windows that are opened are protected with screens. Yes, mice can and do scramble up brick façades and enter open windows. • Secure ALL of your food and candy in hard-sided metal, plastic or glass containers. Mice readily chew through bags and cardboard boxes. • Wash dishes free of food and food residues unless you want mice to clean them for you. • Empty trash of any food wrappers or wastes daily, and keep the trash container covered. • Should you see a mouse or evidence of mice or other pests, alert your building manager! • Exercise good housekeeping. Eliminate clutter on floors to deny mice places to hide. • Do not feed wildlife on campus. It isn’t good for the wildlife or for people. • Don’t spend your own money on your own traps. Harvard pays a pest management vendor to deploy and service traps at no cost to you. • Don’t purchase or use ‘ultrasonic pest repellent devices’, as the claims that they repel mice are not scientifically supported.

The mice are causing me great stress and loss of sleep. What else can be done to help me?

Sharing your home or workplace with unwanted guests can contribute to an already stressful life. Resources are available to help manage stress, regardless of the cause. Students are encouraged to reach out for help to their residential and/or faculty advisors and building managers

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Mice can gain easy access to your home through the cracks and holes that they find. They travel in groups, so you are bound to come across them. This is whenever looking for a place inside or outside of your home. Here are some places where these little creatures love living:

1) Corners on vinyl-sided houses – These are highways into building walls on ground level which leads up towards attic spaces.

2) Ridge vents allow ventilation behind bricks making them perfect hotspots for mouse activity as well.

3) Weep holes do keep out insects, but not always.

4) Construction gaps and pipe penetrations that allow ventilation behind bricks – mice only need 1/4 inch gap to gain entry into a house.

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Rats & Mice Pest control

While some pest control companies may claim to do everything from insect extermination to home repair, we know that true expertise requires focus and proper pest control training. At Houston Pest Control, we specialize in eliminating the most common pests in the area

Industry Experts

The Rats & Mice Control and Exterminators in Houston

Rats, Mice & Rodent Extermination Services in Houston

Mouse and Rat Prevention Tips

Seal up your home

While some pest control companies may claim to do everything from insect extermination to home repair,
we know that true expertise requires focus and proper pest control training. At Houston Pest Control,
we specialize in eliminating the most common pests in the area