On this page I'll show you how to use a simple DIY Method to Remove Both Rodents and Insects.
Rodents can be a problem worth solving.. they spread disease and can chew up your baseboards as well as not make your landlord so thrilled.
I live in a rather upscale place but by the lease the landlord won't pay for removing the mouse.
Mice have gotten resistance to traps.. and won't as often accept bait if you have handled the trap. If your hand is snapped it's not pleasure yet..Here I will discuss some cheaper safe ways to remove mice.
Exterminators can be pricy because according to Leo AI on the Brave search engine, the cost can range from $150 to $475 for traps and live removal can cost from $50 to $80 per mouse.. Fumigation costs can go into the thousands..
Mice tend to go indoors in the winter time when they smell food cooking. They can't live outdoors in the winter time so they decide they want to like us!
Even so I tried methods like sealing up my food and putting it in a large galvanized trash can that cost me $75. I also tried sealing my water by spraying like dishwashing detergent in my sink and toilet so the mouse can't drink the water.
You may have heard that phrase the first days of an old science are always better than the last days of a new.
Using a galvanized trash wasn't pseudo science for me.. from the mouses point of view it seems it was just superstition waiting for future improvements. It took me weeks to remove the first time with the trash can.
Here's my more enlightened view, prepare to be more amazed!
"Some simple cheaper steps you can use to totally remove the mouse from your house."
What you'll need;
Cornstarch ( not the same as cornmeal or flour)
Baking soda
Sugar
Melatonin (optional)
Step one ..seal away your food..
The rodent problem in the tropics seems to be beyond comparison and we might wonder if they could just find good ways to seal away all the food this would solve it.
You may not have time to clean but there's a simple trick to do this without doing huge amounts of cleaning and that is just to put your food in the refrigerator and seal up all the rest like in containers if needed.
Next put cinnamon and cayenne in a line across the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, this is unpleasant to mice..(You might want to put it in a special tray across the width of your refrigerator door inside the refrigerator so that it doesn't stain your shelving, it hasn't stained mine, but my own refrigerator has a hard, smooth surface, You might want to use just to bit of these herbs to start...) it seals off your food from the mice especially combined with another trick and that is to turn down your heater in the winter (or even AC but mine won't go low enough in the heat) this makes the mouse uncomfortable and they tend to leave.
By putting all or more or morsel of your food in the refrigerator, and by sealing access by way of the cayenne and cinnamon you now have a way to keep the mouse from getting much of your food. This also drives the mouse to the safe natural bait (CBS more in a moment)..this itself only distresses the mouse and doesn't harm it.
Step two as I say you want to turn down the heat of your house if possible like in winter so the mouse is more uncomfortable but you're not. To do this and to be toasty and comfortable winter all the time and also save on heat you can use the methods I discuss in the link at the end of the page..
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Step Three
This is the real 100% step. A super cheap safe simple type of bait that doesn't hurt the mouse but makes it leave because the mouse can't resist the sugar in it.. once you've limited the mouse's access to your food and water then you want to give it something with real flavor like sugar.
To make the bait all you need are.. "Cornstarch Baking soda and Sugar.. CBS".
To make this bait use three tablespoons of cornstarch and 3 tablespoons of sugar and then one teaspoon (the spoon that's about a half an inch wide) baking soda stirred in a medium-sized bowl, that's all you need.
This is safe for the mouse and the pets and children and it's natural and cheap.
The advantage of the CBS formula is it stops roaches or other bugs well by a different method and it also stops rodents because like bugs mice can't resist the sugar and the baking soda changes the acid in their stomach so they can't digest and combines with the cornstarch in their stomach. This expands and gives them a stomach ache and they have to leave.
Combined with limiting your food source in the refrigerator with the cayenne and cinnamon and also perhaps turning down the heat of your house to save more heat and this drives the mouse to the bait and the mouse knows you've won the mouse marathon. Sad Mousemas not a mouse was stirring, we had a blendor!
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While I don't own a cat it's actually the scent of the cat that removes mice but also I can imagine purr-fume without paying $200 purr scent a month for cat food. Even so research shows that feline felicity will reduce your risk of heart attack or stroke by a third.. otherwise you have a pet rat who likes you and your neighbors a lot!
Finally an added boost to your defense might be to take some liquid melatonin and blend it in with the CBS formula.. melatonin is found in every living cell and is less toxic than water and has been used by millions.. well actually they were asleep at the time!- and while there are better ways to achieve sleep if you need it (like passion flower I use) because while melatonin does work well for sleep it also causes low blood sugar which seems to make it "work too well". 50% of adults have blood sugar issues and 80% of seniors will have them also.
Melatonin brownies have been used by teens as a practical joke where the other teens at school eat the brownies and get so sleepy and zonked out they have to leave for college..
The super power to cause sleep may be a good reason to use some liquid or powdered melatonin blended in with your CBS formula.
One thing about sleep is that you forget a lot of things and you don't always know where you zonked out. You want the mouse to think of the general area of edginess but because of the way that this may both disorient the mouse both by sleep and the stomach ache, this gives extra value of your camouflage making it so if the mouse can't be really sure where in the world it took debate, and was more aware of speech recognition so be or not to be what was your celebration!
Like this combined with the CBS formula where the mouse gets a real (though temporary and harmless) stomach ache, the mouse will pass out and take notice!
Note.. if like a lot of people you have some melatonin in reach already and you decide to use this melatonin method just put some of it in some water perhaps half a cap overnight to make a liquid.
I put this in a small spray jug and then spray it onto the bait which I put into a 3-in wide jug cap.
Make sure not to get the melatonin on you as you're spraying it on the bait or you may find a temporary cure for insomnia for a few hours!
Perhaps the best way to do this is to put it into the cap and then on the floor where you've seen the mouse and also lean over to spray it there so you don't handle it because it sprays out sideways somewhat otherwise..
Better might be to just use melatonin drops.
As I say other methods can be expensive and not work..supposedly according to AI ultrasonic mouse removers are a sham.
Rat Heaven is a Fountain of Rummage! How to Remove the Mouse from Your Trash..
A way you can use to seal away trash till the mouse leaves or permanently for me at any rate is to repurpose your freezer of the refrigerator..and to do this I use a medium plastic shoe box.. I wrap the kitchen trash bag around the outside edge of it with the trash bag inside the box and enough room between the box and the top to put trash in or either pull it out a bit and put trash in there.
This puts your trash higher than the mouse can reach and also freezes it so the mouse can't smell it and find it, and for a cleaner fresher smelling house.
One thing we might say is we're putting pressure on the mouse and the mouse is putting pressure on us, and even while the CBS formula is safe and harmless to pets or the mouse, in a sense since the mouse is not gone we've only burdened the neighbors with the mouse by removing it from our house.
Mice spread disease and cause large scale damage to food crops in the tropics and they leave mouse poop on the shelves of your house and we feel that we have to go or the mouse goes and it can't be both.
The best long-term solution I could think of that's the most humane to the mouse and the people both might be a method that's been tried of using carbon dioxide ice CO2 and putting it in the borough of the mice like in the city. This causes the mice to die a peaceful and painless death.
I think this could be computerized with small robots that go around where the mice are like outdoors in the tropics and has a small net with the drone that moves down and catches the mouse an the adhesive net and then applies the CO2..
Widespread use of the CBS formula method with the cayenne and cinnamon to form a barrier around the food and combined with the drones might also be viable.
I don't see any reason why dry ice mousetraps like this might not be valuable other than perhaps if the mice are just outsmarting all the traps and it might be best with drones being a portable trap.
While the mice are evolving to resist poison and are outsmarting the traps in the tropics this method of the CBS formula combined with the smarter use of cinnamon and cayenne stuns the mouse harmlessly and doesn't change the mice genome, so the mice may not be able to evolve ways to get around it.
Combining this with the CO2 drones may also be more viable.
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Side Note 1; Winter Weather Control; be cheap and prosper!
(Most people spend $300 a year on winter clothes year after year and presumably they're dissatisfied. I always was so I found how to resolve it.. With methods on the link I use you may only have to pay like $200 for methods like mittens or memory foam one time and from then on you're basically much more adapted to winter..
With enough years of research I found what works to stay cozy even outside for hours. I like to walk for 8 to 10 miles a day as I have for 28 years.. including a microfiber blanket layer I had to sew myself and also, electric pocket warmers inside, these dry out what little moisture there is for toasty warmth, plus a thin lightweight special type of memory foam, how to keep from tearing the memory foam inside your outfit, where to buy all these improvements, The best oven mitts to wear and how and more!
Click Here or see the same link for more at the end of the post about how to be warm in winter cheaply.. (also works for outdoors if you use a special type of memory foam, "closed cell memory foam otherwise with open cell foam the wind and rain will just blow right through you and closed cell memory foam is much superior"..If you think this sounds good about winter where you don't have to keep paying $300 year in year out for winterising methods that don't work see my other cloned link after you read this page. You can also save thousands in heat saved. The real savings though is about $6,000 because if like most Americans you grumble four times a day about the weather and winter the total might be like $20 a day it's costing you. Like other kinds of stress it can be assumed that you're losing neurons and gray matter to Winter every year. One possible solution for this that a lot of people might want to consider is the adaptogenic herb called Withiana. ( adaptogenic is defined as a herb that changes the body in many beneficial ways without itself causing harm.) Other ginsengs like Siberian ginseng or Korean ginseng have edginess issues and withiana is thought of as a smooth ginseng, because it's relaxing and the patented Sensoril formula of withiana is advertised as a stress reducer and it also protects 80% of neurons when you're under stress. We assume that we're already using quite a lot of neurons to the computer with it stress and that combined with winter maybe better off being saved by something like this herb.
Keep in mind that this is not medical advice and I'm not a professional. You use this site at your own risk..always be sure to ask a doctor before making any changes in health or exercise.
Methods I use make it so winter is more like a wonderland.. these are special tricks and I had to go through like 39 tries to find each method that works, like Einstein said the first 99 times he gets it wrong and the hundredth time he gets it right, these are representative samples like in painting where where 99% of painters on the web are better than Picasso, Picasso _____? And if we clean up more than Einstein, the landlady says I'm so creative!
Side Note 2; Removing insects
The value here on this post is that the rodents can't resist the sugar in the CBS method and this also works for other issues like removing bugs but this may remove them somewhat more..( for this issue I highly recommend DE Diatomaceous Earth, this dramatically removes every single bug in your house. DE has super sharp small edges almost as sharp as a diamond made of silica and this will cause abrasion on the exoskeleton of any animal like a flea or a roach causing them to dehydrate. DE is also called the bug killer you can eat because all it is is mostly silica and is also highly useful as a wall cleaner if you use it safely. It doesn't take the wall off the paint or the paint off the wall!-like baking soda even though it has super sharp small edges so it removes all the stuff on top without removing the paint so it's much better.
Because I use it on my wall I think this is the main way that when insects sometimes come in my house they are stopped in a day. Perhaps just putting a small pinch in the corner wouldn't work as well like this.
Even so you don't have to keep spraying and spraying a toxic insecticide. After I started cleaning my walls with it (DE makes a great wall cleaner if used with caution) I haven't had to spray once or use more DE in years.
While DE has had a long and safe history in agriculture it has some important cautions I discuss on the link..You don't want to get it in your eyes or in your nose.. this is especially important but if you take a small pinch of it and put it in the corner of your house where you're not getting the dust or getting it in your eyes this removes every single ant roach and presumably dust mites. If the spiders go you probably also have removed the dust mites because the spiders them and even if insects sail into your house when you open the door they soon stop in a day instead of having to wait like six days for them to go.
One advantage of this method is that you won't have to spray and spray (how could I spray and spray more often!) and this removes the insects from your house. Years of control with a bit of DE at the edge of your wall and you're done! (Just be sure not to Hoover or sweep around the edge of your rug where you put it..)
This is not poisonous so much like bug sprays and it's cheap. When I was a kid my mother used to use boric acid and put it on the slabs of meat in store at our rural house and this stopped some of the bugs and I tried this years later but I can tell you, by comparison DE is much much more powerful! And you don't have to keep spraying. Boric acid stopped some of them but DE stops almost all of them of all types.
(This removes all types of insects except for gnats I found, maybe they sail around in the air so they don't land on it.)
If you like Click Here for my post about DE and both the wondrous value but also the special cautions and how to use it more safely or see the same link at the end of this post if you like.
As promised here's my link about how to save thousands on heat and improve your health by finding methods of staying warm in winter without freezer burn!
And also here's the link about using diatomaceous earth DE for solving issues like dust mites around your house.
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