Mice are guided in their activity by sense of smell. They find food by smell, identify the enemy, navigate in space, look for a pair for breeding. The smell attracts rodents or repels. This property is used against them by a person, if it is decided to wage a war with folk means. In addition to the smell, mice are also afraid of sound. If you understand all these subtleties, you can get rid of pests in a short period of time, prevent them from returning to their former places. What are mice afraid of?
Seeds in the Home War
Given the cleanliness of the mice, clinging plant parts can be used. Rodents are afraid of the seeds of blackroot, sow thistle and a series of tripartite. If they get on their fur, it will be impossible to get rid of. By clinging to seeds, pests will leave their homes.
It is not worth scattering seeds throughout the house. They are placed only in those places where minks are located, so that animals do not want to pass through them.
Burdock
Rodents hate burdock. Its inflorescences will help in the war for housing. Catching on to the turnips, the mice die because they cannot free themselves. The surviving animals leave the room forever. And if you plug holes with inflorescences through which rodents penetrate, then even rats will not be able to get into the house.
How to understand that uninvited guests entered the house
It got colder. Migratory birds flocked to the warm southern regions, and hordes of rats and mice rushed into the apartment and the dacha. Their goal is to find a comfortable place for the upcoming wintering and breeding of future offspring. And since the females of these rodents are able to become pregnant within a few hours after giving birth, the prospects of the owners of a private room cannot be envied. Even the tenants of an apartment located on the upper floors of the house have every chance of meeting a rat of considerable size: it can get into the house through the toilet bowl drain.
Herbal essential oils
In pharmacies, you can buy essential oils that are prepared from herbs. The aroma from the essential oil will be stronger and richer than from fresh or dried herbs. It will feel longer.
It is known that rats are afraid of the smell of peppermint essential oil like fire. The same goes for mice. The oil is dripped onto cotton pads or napkins and laid out in the corners of the rooms.
You can put a few drops in the water before cleaning the floors. The smell will be felt throughout the house, so you can't overdo it. The pungent scent causes headaches and dizziness.
In addition to cleaning floors, you can spray essential oil from a spray bottle. For this, 1 to 15 drops of oil are dropped into 300 ml of water and 10 ml of alcohol are added. The mixture is applied wherever the animals may be.
Special aroma lamps are sold in stores. The essential oil evaporates along with the smoke, and the smell penetrates all the cracks.
Direct contact of the animal with oil must be excluded. If it gets on the rodent's fur, it will lead to death. For lovers of humane methods of elimination, murder is definitely not suitable.
What plants will scare off mice
Black elderberry.
What smell scares off mice? There are folk methods for dealing with mice, and a list of herbs whose smell will scare intruders away from your home.
- There is a list of foods and substances that we can use to drive out mice and prevent them from entering our home. For example: a mixture of sunflower oil, pepper, horseradish and garlic... All ingredients must be grinded with the addition of a small amount of water. The resulting solution must be sprayed with a spray bottle in all corners of the house. Another mixture will give the same effect: mix garlic, sunflower oil and hot peppers.
- If we want to use a harder repellent, then it is perfect for these purposes. baking soda, which, by the way, also has disinfecting properties. Mice hate its characteristic smell. Sprinkle baking soda at strategic points, such as corners, spaces around doors and windows, through which mice enter the house. This natural element can be easily removed with a mop or vacuum cleaner and does not pose a threat to the health of children and pets.
- There are also many plants that can help us fight rodents. One of the most effective is peppermint... In addition to its cushioning function in the preparation of various dishes, mint is characterized by a pungent odor that haunts rodents. It can be grown in pots placed on windowsills, as well as in a vegetable garden, if available. In addition, it can be dry spread around the perimeter of the house or apartment if you are sure that there are mice in the house.
- Very effective and peppermint essential oil, which is often used in herbal medicine. You can moisten cotton swabs with them and place them even in the most difficult places in your home.
- Scare off mice can and wormwood smell... A strong effect is obtained from fumigating an apartment or house with a smoldering wormwood.
- In addition to wormwood, a strong repellent (a substance of natural origin that repels insects and rodents) can be marsh wild rosemary... The essential oil of this plant is poisonous for mice and rats. Having found mice in the apartment, spread the rosemary branches in the corners of the apartment, and if you find a hole, then plug it with rosemary branches. Mice leave such an apartment, and it often happens that forever.
- Has a deterrent effect and herbaceous elderberry and black elderberry... Mice cannot digest the smell of elderberry. Some summer residents specially plant a black elderberry on the site, because they know that this smell will definitely scare away mice.
- Bay leaf Is another plant that can be useful in fighting mice. Chop it up and put it in pre-made cloth bags. You can put them not only in the pantry, but also in cabinets where food is usually stored.
- How to scare mice away from your home? Can be used chamomile heads - scatter them on the floor in the apartment, or in the house. Chamomile bunches can be placed in food storage areas. Over time, the smells of herbs disappear, and the herbs need to be replaced with fresh ones.
Wormwood herb.
Detergent
You can even use regular laundry detergent. Mix 2 tablespoons of detergent with 1⁄4 cup of water and 2 cups of ammonia in a bowl. Place this product where mice often appear. This mixture will make the mice feel uncomfortable because they cannot tolerate the mixture of ammonia and powder odors. They will most likely leave your home for good.
Homemade trap
In this category, there are two of the best mice traps. They help well in different situations. Each of them can be built from improvised means, without running to the store for mousetraps.
Plastic bottles
Making mousetraps with your own hands is extremely easy. You can place it in any convenient place. To catch a mouse, seeds, grain, fresh bread, a bun, meat, bacon, smoked meats are used as bait:
- The neck is cut off.
- Lubricate the walls of the bottle with vegetable oil.
- Lay the bait.
- The cut-off part is lowered with the neck down back into the bottle, fixed with tape.
- Start fighting - leave the trap indoors overnight.
The mouse crawls into the bottle for food, but slippery walls prevent it from getting out of the trap. Several more relatives can join her.
Bottle and bucket traps
Bucket
To get rid of mice in a private house, or an ordinary bucket with a capacity of 10 liters will help. It is filled with water to 1/3 part. Straw, seed husks, leaves are laid on top. Pour 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil for aroma, pour in the grain. A bridge is attached to the bucket.
The mouse climbs on a stick to the bucket at the smell of bait, a layer of husk hides water. The rodent dumps, drowns, the top layer is restored, waiting for the next victim.
On a note!
With a bucket, you can catch several rodents in one night. You can put the device in any convenient place.
Protection against late blight
7 tbsp. tar spoons and 2 tbsp. tablespoons of soda are diluted with 10 liters of water. The solution is sprayed on the ground before planting. If then the plants show signs of disease, it is recommended to spray the plants with water with diluted tar. After 10 days, the treatment should be repeated. Usually two sprays are sufficient.
Birch tar is a natural, environmentally friendly agent for pest control of garden and horticultural crops. Gardeners are happy to use the substance, treat plants with it. Together with tar or instead of it, tar soap can be used.
Chemical industry products for pest control
When choosing poisons, experts recommend focusing on where you plan to lay the poison. This is due to the fact that many chemicals are volatile, that is, they can enter the human respiratory tract. Therefore, they are used where people are extremely rare - warehouses, basements
If the premises are used for storing food, it is important to ensure that the poisons do not come into contact with them.
Such chemicals can be found on the market today.
Krysid
The product is available in powder form. It has a negative effect on the blood formation of domestic rats, which leads to their death within 12 hours after contact with the bait. For an effective fight, the substance is taken in small portions, which is harmless to humans. It is recommended to mix ratsids with food that attracts rodents. It is important to remember that pests quickly develop addiction to this substance. Therefore, it can be applied no more than once every two months.
Goliath
It is recognized as the most effective, and most importantly - fast-acting agent against rodents. Used by professional deratizers. Rodents do not die immediately, which makes it possible to feed a large number of individuals with poison. The active agent of Goliath causes rats to feel a lack of air, which makes them leave the room and die outside the house.
Goliath has a mummifying effect
Mortorat
The composition of this drug includes brodifacum, which leads to the mummification of the animal after its death. The advantage of this process is that a person will not feel a cadaveric smell after processing the premises. Mortar is produced in briquettes, which should be laid out with a step of 5 meters from each other. Rodent specimens die in about five days.
Rat death
The composition of the product includes a substance that negatively affects the composition of the blood of rodents. Just like using Goliath, Rat Mix will cause domestic rats to leave the room to find air. The absence of external signs of food poisoning in animals helps to avoid panic among other members of the clan. Accordingly, they continue to consume the poisoned food. The addition of antimicrobial substances to the composition, flavors allows to increase the effectiveness
An effective method for eliminating unwanted neighbors
Nutcracker
It is produced in the form of flat balls of a jelly-like consistency. Suitable for use in premises of any purpose. The nutcracker does not change its properties even when used in high humidity conditions.
Nutcracker is available in powder form
How else to expel mice from non-residential premises?
If rodents have settled in a barn or garage and constantly attack your food supplies, try to scare them off with the unpleasant smells of burnt fluff, burnt rubber, and naphthalene.
The mice are not delighted with the aromas of cheap domestic perfumes, colognes, kerosene.
All these aromas, of course, are difficult for a person to endure, however, in order to get rid of toothy pests, you will have to endure - the mice will leave your barn after a few days.
As for the use of these odors in an apartment, living room, then you must refrain from such experiments so that harmful substances do not enter your body.
Rat death 1 and Rat death 2 what is the difference
Fundamentally, Rat Death No. 1 and Rat Death No. 2 differ in active ingredients: the first drug has brodifacum as the active ingredient, and the second has bromadiolone.
For the rat fighter himself, this distinction is important because bromadiolone is more toxic to rats. And since less poison is required to poison one animal, Rat Death 2, generally speaking, is more rational in buying and using
In addition, Rat Death number 1 is blue-green, and Rat Death number 2 looks more like pieces of meat. Which, incidentally, makes the second poison even more attractive to rats.
The photo below shows Rat Death # 1:
And here - Rat Death # 2:
The price of both poisons is about the same: they cost about 70 rubles for a package for 8 briquettes (weighing 100 grams) or about 120 rubles for a package for 16 briquettes (weighing 200 grams).
On a note
As mentioned above, in general, Rat Death No. 2 is preferable for use - also for the reason that the bromadiolone used in it is less hazardous to the environment. In particular, when disposing of the remains of the agent or rats poisoned by it, the load on soil biocenoses decreases. At the same time, according to ecologists, brodifacum (contained in Rat Death No. 1) poses a great danger to the environment. For this reason, the production of bromadiolone in Italy requires less cost permits and is more economical than the production of brodifacum for Rat Death # 1.
Synthetic fragrances
It happens that none of the above tools are suitable at all. What smell are mice afraid of yet?
In this case, it is recommended to seek help from synthetic fragrances: they are sold in stores in large cities, but they can also be ordered via the Internet.
Their greatest advantage is the absence of a smell, or rather, a person does not feel it, but a mouse will definitely smell it.
And although this flavoring is more expensive than wormwood and coriander, the effect of its use is about the same.
Sagebrush
Wormwood from mice is no less effective. The protective properties of the herb known to many people lie in the bitter-tart aroma with which it is endowed. Our ancestors also shifted bread sheaves with dried wormwood to protect them from mice. Many summer residents still use wormwood today, girdling tree trunks in the garden with it for the winter, since mice can gnaw the bark of apple trees, or covering pantries with food supplies with small bunches of grass.
