Bed bugs and Pests
Pest exterminators Dhanush Madhavan and Nalaka Daundaratne
Using Glue Traps to Catch mice and rats
Glue traps are the No.01 recommendation of Nalaka Daundaratne and Dhanush for your DIY rat and mouse hunt. Usually that have two sizes for both rats and mice separately. Also, there are many brands available in the market and make sure to read some customer reviews if you are buying online. Because there are few products out there with certain issues as ineffective glue and possibility of drying out or the drip is insufficient where the rats would get them off the trap easily.
As for the sizes, we suggest buying the larger one which is designed for rats which will be ideal for mice as well.
How to Place Glue Traps
To do this right you should first inspect around the house to trying to locate all or most of the openings that they might find passage to your living area. If you believe that their activities are only limited to kitchen and/or few rooms, let’s primarily focus on those. We will be meet approximately 8-10 glue traps for a standard sized room. Usually, they come in pairs and make sure to buy extra as they are not reusable once a rat or a mice will get caught. However, it’s your kitchen and it has many drawers and cupboards that you have found them being teaching you will need few additional traps.
Now, try to make a space around the room by moving any furniture that might be in contact of the wall. Since mice and rats prefer travelling adjacent to walls, we are going to place them along the border. If you identified the opening or their entrances, place a once directly info by of the opening and even from the sides depending on the location. Then place rat glue traps around the side skirting around 4-5 feet apart or as needed. Typically, you don’t need to need any bait with glue traps.
Now as for the drawers and pantry cupboards, you can either place one or two around food items that you can leave for them to attract or chose one drawer and effectively sealing off the others temporarily by stuffing openings and using materials as metal, tape or anything that will work. However, for the first few attempts, Nalaka Daundaratne and Madhavan recommend to place traps in all drawers that they used contaminate to increase the chance of catching more rats during first few times.
Also, since these are very smart animals, soon as the experience or witness another getting caught to a trap, they will avoid using the same path or coming to a place. So, having multiple optional places will give us more opportunities to trap the mice and rats more effectively.