How to deal with mice in the country and the site

House and field mice are frequent visitors to the garden and summer cottages, which is connected with the abundance of food and dug up land, where you can make holes. They spoil the food and planting material, gnawing roots and tree roots. Therefore, the question of how to get rid of mice in the country, it is very acute for gardeners.

What is the danger of settlement of mice in the garden

Mice like browniesso and voles with a short tail, which settle in a country house and on a garden plot, can cause a lot of trouble to a person:

• to create a fire hazard situation in case of damage to the electrical wiring or wires in the country;
• mice are carriers of infections and diseases;
• spoil the food stored in the cottage and in the cellar, which after them become unsuitable for food;
• during their long life in the room there will be an unpleasant "mouse" smell, which causes rejection or allergies;
• in the garden area, flower bulbs and tree roots suffer from vole mice, gnaw holes in the ground, damaging the root system of plants.

Therefore, it is necessary to fight with mice at the dacha by all available means and to begin these activities should be faster, until the rodents have caused much damage.

Preventing the appearance of mice in the house

Harm from mice in the country

Small pests can penetrate any building through very small openings and gaps, therefore, for the purposes of prevention, it is very important to try to make the dacha room as airtight as possible.To do this, you must carefully examine the walls for the presence of holes and mouse passages, existing ones - to close up with the use of glass wool or small scourer made of metal.

For sealing, you can use a sealant or mounting foam, pay special attention to the holes through which the hoses from the air conditioner are inserted, and also cover all the gaps around the windows and doors of the cottage.

On a note!

To prevent mice from finding products, they should be stored in special containers. In the kitchen, keep clean, regularly wash the floor and other surfaces, do not leave food residue and ensure that taps do not leak. Trash cans are also better to have airtight ones.

Ways to fight with mice in the country

Methods of rodent control

Gardeners have suffered from mice and have been fighting with them for several hundred years, but thanks to their multiplicity and high fertility, mice regularly continue to annoy them. Over the years, developed effective means of mice in the country and many ways to get rid of them, which can be divided into 2 groups:

• scaring and preventing the appearance of rodents in the country and the site;
• pest control.

The warning and frightening methods of fighting mice in the garden and in the house include:

• The easiest way - to get a cat that will catch in the yard and in the house of mice. It is only important to remember that the use of poisons in this case is prohibited, otherwise not only rodents, but also a cat will die.
• Very common methods of combating folk remedies - the creation of a fencing barrier from plants, poisonous or those whose smell will scare off rodents: garlic, wormwood, black root, tansy, imperial grouse, ledum leaves, elderberry branches, walnut leaves. Plants are planted or laid out in bunches near the mouse holes, periodically changing to more recent ones.
• To protect bushes and trees, pruning circles are added to the celandine; for the winter, the trunks of fruit crops are protected by wrapping them with a layer of spruce branches, plastic from bottles, roofing felt or bark, and in winter they seal the snow around the trees.
• The use of mint essential oils, sharply smelling substances (ammonia, kerosene, etc.), the smell of which the pests fear, is applied from field mice at the dacha: wadded disks or rags soaked in oil in their habitats are laid out
• One of the original ways to drive out rodents is the use of used cat litter, which gardeners scatter around the perimeter of the villa, the site and buildings, because the garage and the hen house are especially attractive for mice.
• The use of ultrasonic repellents, they are sold in hardware stores or supermarkets. Such devices emit ultrasonic waves that cause rodents to run away from the sound source, which will permanently get rid of mice in the country and in the garden.

Important!

Some Ultrasound rodent repeller can adversely affect not only mice, but also pets, which should be considered when buying.

Extermination of rodents

Mouse Remedies

Control measures aimed at eliminating pests include:

• Installation of mousetraps and traps that are best checked daily.
  

  Important!

  In order to avoid infection or infections, you should never get a dead mouse out of the trap with your bare hands, it is better to use a plastic bag or gloves, and then thoroughly wash the mousetrap.

• Placing poisonous drugs added to the bait, most often used coumarin, arsenic, warfarin.When choosing what to poison the rodents, it is necessary to take into account that they adapt well to the previously used poisons, so it is better to change them. It should be remembered also about the presence of pets, because eating a poisoned mouse, cat, or dog can also be poisoned.
• Using the bait of plaster and cereals, next to which they put a bowl of water: the animal will eat the bait, drink water, and the gypsum inside will harden, causing its death.
• Glue traps, which are sold in stores, catch the mouse with the glue, into which it falls, trying to get the bait.
• It is possible to fight against rodents in the winter by spreading around the trees cuts of hoses, where the bait with poison is put.

It is better to put all mousetraps and traps in places where mouse droppings or their burrows are found. In the garden, voles often settle and climb out of a warm bed, where in the lower layers they build nests and multiply.

How to protect roots from mice

One of the most valuable plants in the garden is the roots, which usually ripen in late summer and early autumn and are often attacked and nibbled by mice during this period. There are several ways to protect the planting of potatoes, to protect the beets in the garden:

• Proven preventive measure of protection against mice in the garden in August-September - digging up carrot and potato beds along the perimeter and in the row spacing, which destroys the mouse passages.
• Ash sprinkling of the tops of the roots, also use this technique in the cellar, when the harvest was over and the potatoes were put there for the winter.
• You can save carrots or beets by choosing a seat away from the fence, closer to the middle of the garden.
• Water the beds with ripened roots with a solution of water and the contents of the cat tray.

Bringing mice to the country house and garden plot is a long and continuous process, since in the autumn-winter period, all rodents move closer to the sources of food and heat. Therefore, it is necessary to destroy these pests constantly, using various methods.