Bat Exclusions And Bat Proofing

The methods used for bat removal have nothing in common with the methods normally used for animals such as squirrels, groundhogs, and others. Instead of using traps, bat control is done by using a systematic exclusion program. It is illegal to use poisons, and it is illegal to kill some bats. Studies have shown bats have returned from distances of up to 150 miles, so trapping and “moving” bats only creates a false sense of security for homeowners who see the bats “caught and hauled away”.

The bat exclusion process requires several steps. The first step requires an observation of the structure shortly after sunset to locate the entrance/exit holes. This is done on a fairly clear night, as rainy and windy conditions are not favorable for bats to locate flying insects. The observation night can be at any time during the spring, summer, or fall.

The second step involves sealing all gaps, cracks, and holes, leaving the primary access hole(s) open. This prevents them from finding an alternate access point into the structure.

Step 3 is to install one-way exclusion devices that allow the bats to leave their roost site but not return into the structure.

Exclusions are usually performed in late summer and early fall. Excluding the mother bats during that period would create a problem even worse than having the bats in your attic, as the young bats would die without their mother to feed and care for them. The summer observations allow experts to be prepared for exclusions when the proper time comes. On many structures they will perform much of the sealing and repairs before the exclusion season begins.

Exclusions can range from a few hundred to several thousand dollars depending on the size of the structure, equipment required, materials for repairs, labor time for repairs and sealing. The cost for bat-proofing varies greatly depending on the combination of the previous factors. Some structures may require high-lifts or other equipment to perform a bat exclusion and bat-proofing. In some instances the primary entrance/exit holes are the only access point’s available, and basic repairs and exclusion may be sufficient.

Bat Inspection- This is to determine the species of colonizing bats and if young are present, active entry points and potential re-entry points, post-exclusion. This step will allow a bat control professional to give the customer an accurate quote to “bat-proof” the entire structure.

Bat Removal- Colony removal is achieved with mechanical devices called “check valve” or “bat valve”. This is a one-way door that will allow bats the ability to exit the structure but, not re-enter the structure.

Bat Exclusion- Bat exclusion is extremely tedious work. Technicians must work within very small tolerances. They must be very detail-oriented and very thorough. Failure to properly seal one ¼ inch gap can result in a failed exclusion.

Performing an inspection can be time consuming, as we closely inspect the entire outer structure. Performing an inspection requires every inch of the structure to be checked thoroughly, top to bottom. We inspect the rooftop and check the lower roof lines, along with all dormers, window frames, and other potential bat entry points.

Some insurance companies may cover bat exclusions, since they are not rodents. Most homeowners policies will not cover any rodent damage or removal, but since bats are not rodents contacting your agent prior to exclusion is suggested. Oddly enough, there are many insurance companies will not cover the exclusion cost, but will cover the guano removal and clean-up program.

Daniel is a professional NWCO. Service area northern Michigan. Graduate from the National Wildlife Damage Management Academy, he is a Certified Bat Exclusion Professional, Certified with the Michigan Animal Damage Control Association. http://www.vamoosevarmint.com/bat_control_pest_removal.htm

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Get Rid of Mice ? Using Your Mouse to Get Rid of Your Mice!

It’s late at night, you have just started to drift off to sleep and then you hear it. The distinctive scratching noise in your walls that lets you know that you are not alone in your home. You have mice! Or perhaps you haven’t actually heard them, but you have been finding the distinctive signs in your cupboards that someone small and furry has been helping himself to a midnight snack. Ripped cereal boxes and mouse droppings are telltale signs that these small rodents have decided to move in, and now you need to find a solution to get rid of mice.

There are many different methods out there to get rid of mice. Depending upon the severity of your problem, your location and your personal preferences there are different ways to go about it. Ranging from mouse traps, poisons and cats to electronic traps and ultrasonic repellants, there are a wide range of choices. The most “old fashioned” and typical methods are considered barbaric by some, while some of the newer, gentler methods are scoffed at by others. Some solutions can be very effective if you live in a house or farm, but not so much if you live in an apartment. Others work well for small spaces but might be less effective on a large property, like a farm. All are effective and truly it is a matter of personal taste.

Probably the oldest way to get rid of mice is to get a cat to chase and eliminate the problem for you. Cats can be an extremely effective mice deterrent system however, it is important that you realize that not all cats are natural born “mousers”. Some cats will diligently work to keep mice away, stalking intruders and disposing of them quickly. Others however really are un-phased by the presence of these rodents and will ignore them even more effectively! Cats are also not the solution for you if you are not in a position to add a feline to your family!

In most cases a trap is the best way to go. Small, unobtrusive and generally affordable, there are a wide variety of traps on the market that will help you get rid of mice. From old fashioned spring traps to humane, “no-kill” traps, the overall effectiveness of mouse traps cannot be disputed. No matter what method you use, given a little time, your mouse problem will be gone!

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Organic pest control – Natural bug and insect repellents

www.howdini.com Organic pest control – Natural bug and insect repellents When it comes to insects in your garden, it’s a bug eat bug world, so don’t panic. Some bugs are good for plants. But how to control the bad ones without chemicals? Here’s great advice from Scott Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening magazine. Keywords: organic pest control natural pest control natural bug repellent natural pesticide
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Mice Traps

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Record setting…. 1. “Patchy” is powered by a mousetrap. The potential energy created by the spring in the mouse trap is converted to Kinetic Energy when I let the “snapper” go. I have attached a dowel to the “snapper” of the mousetrap with Duct Tape, and have attached the end of the string 8.89 cm from the top of the stick with Duct Tape. The purpose of this is to extend the lever action, therefore slowing the Kinetic Energy and lengthening the period of time it will go. The disadvantage is that I also weaken the Kinetic Energy. The other end of the string is attached to the left outside of my car on the rear axel. I pull the string taught and roll it up on the axel, spinning the wheel backwards. As I pull and roll the string I also pull the dowel and the “snapper” up, creating the potential energy. When the dowel lays flat against the car facing backward I place the car on the floor and allow it to run. By letting go of the “snapper” I am converting the potential energy to kinetic. The kinetic energy pull the string, which pulls the axel, which pulls the wheel, moving the car forward, making it work. 1 3. The biggest issue I had once the car was made was that it would run when you held it up, but it could not deal with the friction of the floor. The most relevant way I solved this problem was by shortening the length of the dowel attached to the mouse trap. My first dowel was 30.48 cm long and I had attached the string to the very end. This impaired the kinetic energy

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House Mouse Behaviors

house mouse Our friend the house mouse is often found in areas outside of the home like fields, sheds, wood piles, behind hedges and bushes, living happily outside of our common areas.  The house mouse eats plants, seeds, and bugs and builds its home or nesting areas out of soft vegetation or leaves. They will be happy to move into a missing brick in a wall, and exist with a large community if the area permits such a group. Because the house mouse needs warm temperatures, and does not hibernate, the change in seasons will bring on changes to the decisions the house mouse makes, to ensure that they survive the coming cold months.

Looking for warmth of temperatures between 65 degrees and no more than 80 degrees can be a tricky task.  The humidity in the air must be at least 55 degrees as well.  And, when you couple the fact that a mouse must eat each day, they are often looking for a perfect world, and that really is your home.

Dispersal of House Mice from Your Home

The exploration begins with the outside of your home.  Looking along the bottom of the ground to no more than a couple of feet up, the house mouse will climb and smell for open warm currents, food scents and the crack that will allow a push of its skull into a space of even 1/4″.  They look for pipes that hold a small entrance, and follow the heat and food smells.  The fact is, if you prevent mice from entering your home with simple caulking technology, and the addition of peppermint smells on the outside and inside your home, you have created a difficult position for most mice.  They cannot get in if they continue to search for warm currents of air, and find none available, and will move on to your neighbors homes.

Once a mouse finds an entrance, he or she will urinate to indicate the highway of home to other mice.  The urine tracks can be easily seen with a black light, or an Ultraviolet light.  You can use this UV light to caulk easily, if you already have such a highway created.  The fact is, you want to discourage the new inhabitants, even if you have an existing house mouse population in your home.

Mice can travel over 1 mile to search out homes or buildings to save them from low food stocks and cold weather.  The fields of a farm are full of hobo mice, traveling to your farm house, looking for a way to get in.  If you have not caulked in a while, a UV light and a caulk gun are great defensive items, and will ensure that the mile they have walked is the mile in vain.

Importation from Grocery and Supply Trucks

The front door is another way that the house mouse can find entry, as they are often found roaming around truck stops, and other commercial loading areas, where food is plentiful.  The house mouse is often in many of our commercial transport areas and trucks, and is often on the rail system as well.  The boxes and crates of food and stored soft good items, often carry nests and little ones with their parents.  Easily hitching to our local retail environments, the mice that tag along with such stocks, are often ready to explore their new environment, and bring with them, strong genes for new breeding that will produce healthy babies.

Town-homes and Apartment Complexes

Your local apartment building is the mega housing complex for most house mice.  When you move into the complex, inquire about their rodent removal process and plan.  Look for outside bait boxes and traps, to see that they have commercial trapping plans in place.  The combination of outside non-caulked areas of the complex, and the many hitchers that can ride into the front door of the complex with your neighbor’s supplies, the house mouse can really benefit from this uncontrolled plan of many human’s living together.

If their is a restaurant on the lower level of your apartment building, the chance of house mice infestation is very high.   The high amount of piping, utility wires and tunneling that reside within the halls and walls of an apartment complex, make for easy traffic from one food full apartment to another. Even if you are a good mouse prevention expert, chances are, one of your neighbors will  not be, and the food is available, and the warmth factor is covered, with many areas to nest and live.

Over the length of the fall and winter months, the infestation in such communal buildings can be quite large.  The only prevention methods used by most apartment dwellers are trapping methods, as they may not have utility access, or the ability to prevent the entrance with caulking and information to neighbors.

If you have an infestation, your health is in danger.  The education of your property company, and the neighbors is the first step.  Then, a plan of prevention and trapping is in order.  With the new information, you can create a clean and mouse free apartment, that will eventually smell and feel better, as mice create quiet a lot of debris and fecal matter.

Mice in the walls can be seen when any building is torn down, and you will often find the problem simply relocates, as the need for food and warmth is very dire.  The mice will search with warm currents and food smells.  Ensure your home and office has these currents covered with caulking and peppermint.

It is hard to remove mice from urban areas, as humans build large intricate utility areas underground and in construction areas, which are not often visited by humans after the building is completed.  These become the highways of the city mouse, and they are often nesting and housing areas in a pinch.  The problem with the pipes and utility areas are they are often too noisy for mice, and they do not like the electrical noise or water pipe noise that is constantly running through such installations.  They will use them to move sight unseen, from one hospitable building to another, and find their new mate or nesting area via this highway.

Nesting is the Key to Understanding Mice

When you build a home, think about the covered areas of your insulation and how those areas can be covered and caulked.  It is important to build your home with areas between the environment and the living areas, and as well, how those areas are tightly covered.  The small step of keeping a tight enclosure on insulation, can create an inability for your house mouse to nest.

But even then, without walls or insulation areas, the drop ceiling you have installed is a perfect nesting area, as the warmth is often in the ceiling.  The stock of toilet tissue in your store room, creates a perfect nesting material, with an easy way to grow a rising mouse family.  The beach towels you store in the closet, are a comfy and easy mouse nest.  The hot water heater can be a nice nesting area, as it is warm, and not often too noisy.

Female mice clean and nest to protect the new mice she births, and she can have up to 48 mice in a year’s time.  This new population is available to have their own young within a few weeks.  Within this time, your home can become burdened with these new dwellers in a very short period of time.

Adding trapping plans to your home, peppermint in storage areas, as well as electrical frequency boxes that mice hate, you can remove this population.  Be sure to search through our site to find the best plan for your situation!

Remember, a plan of action is only as good as the information you have to put it together, so learn where they are coming in, find out where they are nesting, trap and continue to make the trapping interesting to remove them, and continue until you are convinced you have solved the problem.  Be diligent and persistent on your mouse problem, as they are intelligent and will make your home unhealthy and very dirty with their constant feeding and marking.

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The Importance of Getting Rid of House Mice

Mice are small and hairy creatures that can easily damage most of your household appliances, upholstery, eat all types of food items, and because they feed on wasted food, they carry various harmful diseases. It can get very complicated and frustrating to control the increase of mice population in a home because these rodents are small in structure and can easily get between small gaps and cracks. They can easily be found in almost any area in a home and also in garbage cluttered areas. Mice are not that easy to spot during the day, but during the night or when the lights are turned off, they can often be heard scurrying around looking for wasted food items.

Getting rid of mice is not an easy feat. They crawl through small holes and tend to hide in small corners. The good news is that even if it is not an easy task, it is possible to get rid of these pesky rodents on your own. By applying a variety of techniques, you can effectively and completely clear your home of mice. Keeping an organized, uncluttered, and clean home are some of the best ways to prevent mice from invading your home. Food attracts mice, so food that is put away in secure bags and containers is another way to prevent mice from showing up.

Mice are also known to find the smell of mothballs and ammonia repelling. This is a scent that these creatures stay away from. Peppermint is another scent that can have them running in the opposite direction. If you soak some cotton balls with peppermint extract and place them near the areas where you see or hear mice can help keep them away. Mice are also flexible small creatures and they have the capability of running and jumping up and down walls. Sealing any vents, cracks, and open spaces, thin openings from the inside and outside of your home are other ways to prevent mice infestation. If your home is already infested by these rodents, you can always try to use traps.

Mouse traps are an effective way to getting rid of mice. You can place traps in corners of your home or the places where you often see them running around. Another option is by applying mice repellents. This is a safe and eco-friendly way to get rid of house mice.

If your mice problems don’t go away after trying natural methods, it would probably be best that you contact a professional pest control expert. They can apply the proper treatments and chemicals to get rid of house mice.

Getting rid of house mice can be a troublesome task but it is possible to keep them away from your home if you apply the right methods. The use of mice repellents is a proven way to clear your home of disease carrying rodents.

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Finding The Best Mouse Traps For Your Infestation

Businesses and homes alike can use sticky mouse traps for their mice problems. These problems are especially prevalent in restaurants, homes near cities and homes in the country.

I recently moved into a home a few months ago, and there was a hillside behind the house. We didn’t think anything of it since the house was still in a nice neighborhood, but lo and behold we had tons of field mice coming around our deck and doors. This really was a pain because we didn’t have a screen door on our backdoor, so we would just leave the doors open sometimes to keep cool. This allowed a couple of mice to find their way inside. And let me tell you, I think field mice are the worst! These guys are much smaller than regular mice, very fast, and very hard to get rid of.

Finally, we decided to buy some mouse traps. We bought both mouse glue traps and humane mouse traps. It was hard to determine the best mouse traps, as they both worked very well. For sticky mouse traps, you can quite literally place these anywhere and the mice simply step on them and are caught. These are very non-technical and just about anyone can set them up!

The humane mouse traps, we found, were just as effective as the sticky mouse traps plus, they were obviously gentler on the little guys. Once the mice have been caught inside the humane mouse traps, you still need to make sure you release them in a location far away from your home and other people’s homes. If you really want to be humane, take the trap to a park or the woods and let the mice go there!

Because we didn’t have screens, we also had some problems on our deck and house regarding flies. Of course, flies can be just as annoying as mice. They get on your food and they buzz around like they own the place! So, we also got disposable fly traps as well. These simply hang from the door frame and as the flies come in, they get stuck to the disposable fly traps. Once you catch enough you can throw them away and use new ones.

These traps contain a different ahesive product than the sticky mouse traps. The mice traps have an almost palpable glue substance on them, whereas the disposable fly traps are more like a sticky paper. That’s understandable since mice are heavier than flies.

There are also rat traps available as well, which might come in handy if you live in New York or another big city like that! I lived in New York awhile back and though we didn’t have rat problems in our home, some people we talked to had some real horror stories. For these pests, large sticky mouse traps are usually able get the job done.

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Mouse control

The physical ability of the mouse is amazing as most homeowners can attest to their rapid speed when you are trying to trap them. Mice have been measured up to speeds of 12 feet per second and can jump an amazing 2 feet high. The mouse is an excellent climber and can scale any rough surface wall without even breaking their stride.

There is no wonder that mouse control can be a challenge for even the most experienced pest expert. Knowing a few key bits of rodent management techniques will help you be more successful at your mouse control.

Know the enemy, being able to identify whether it is a mouse or a rat will change the way you attack the problem, traps and glue boards are not created equal and ones that will work for mice are not big enough to handle and adult rat. Fecal identification is one of the keys to identification and usually is the most commonly encountered sign of a rodent infestation. The house mouse produces about 40 to 100 fecal pellets daily, even a small colony can produce thousands of feces in a very short period of time. Their pellets are between 1/8 to ¼ inch long and usually have one or both ends pointed.

Because mice usually follow the same pathway looking for evidence of runways, tracks will help you identify where to place your traps and glue boards for mice control.

Exclusion techniques whenever possible will help eliminate their entrance and make your residence mouse free for years to come. Fundamentally you want eliminate dead spaces, cracks, crevices and other openings so that pest cannot hide or enter. Repair doors, cracks should be block with copper mesh and openings were plumbing is entering the structure should be covered with some type of steel.

Good sanitation will also help in mouse control, eliminating as much of their food source as possible will help keep their population and health in check. Keeping a tight lid on garbage cans and cleaning up spills and food inside will help.

The use of rat snap traps, mouse bait, and glue boards will help make your mouse control endeavors very successful. Mechanical traps, snap traps have been around for centuries and work very effective when placed in the proper location. Make sure the opening of the trap is up against a structure, wall or cabinet in order to be more successful. For mice control there are also available multi catch live traps for homeowners who wish to release the mice away from their residence.

There are many websites which offers a full line of professional rat baits , pest control, including glue traps, , poisons, stations and rat glueboards for all your Do It yourself Pest Control needs. Now you can use the same products the professional pest control technicians use at a fraction of the cost.

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How To Get Rid Of Mice

If you see a mouse in your house, don’t kid yourself—his entire extended family has moved in with him. Reclaim your home, once and for all.
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Best Mouse Trap

AsktheExterminator.com Someone has invented a better mouse trap. You can set these new snap traps one-handed and discard dead mice without having to touch anything. No mice! No mess and no injured fingers.

Who would of thought catching a mouse would be so easy!
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