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BAITS Rodent baits, also known as Rodenticides, offer an economical and efficient approach for eliminating rodent populations. Read below for more tips and strategies for the most effective use of mouse and rat bait. | | Expert Tips
Location, Location, LOCATION! The most important rule for the effective use of rodenticide is good bait placement location based on thorough inspections to determine the high-activity areas of rodents. Baits must be installed into areas rats and mice will readily and repeatedly encounter during their daily feeding and foraging periods. Thus, thorough inspections to determine the numbers and placements of bait are critical. Because rodents are not normally distributed evenly throughout a building or area, bait placements used to reduce rodent infestations should be concentrated into high-activity areas as determined by inspections.  In most cases, it makes little sense to evenly space baits around the perimeter of your room if most of the rodent infestation is concentrated in only one or two areas of the room. In those areas of high rodent activity, space the bait placements as close together as label will permit. The Strategies tab above gives you more rodent-specific baiting strategies for the House Mouse, Norway Rat, and Roof Rat. Bait Rotation
Pest Management Professionals know that the key to successful baiting is to alternate among different rodenticide actives. Also known as “Bait Rotation”, this technique requires that different active ingredients be used to: 1.) Prevent Bait Shyness Technical term to describe cases where rodents do not eat the bait. Bait shyness can be caused by: - Competing food sources more easily accessible or more palatable than rodenticides - Sub-lethal exposures can lead rodents to identify bait as dangerous thus stopping consumption. This risk increases with fast-acting acute poisons versus delayed action of an anti-coagulant. 2.) Maximize Consumption Mice love to investigate & nibble at new elements introduced
in their environment. By regularly making new & different baits available to them, you will be likely to see an increase in consumption. 3.) Limit Resistance Sub-lethal exposure to a large population can trigger genetic mutations that make future generations immune to that active. Researchers have identified pockets of rodent populations that are immune to Warfarin & Diphacinone; but Victor® uses active ingredients powerful enough to overcome that resistance. Bait rotation can help ensure that no rodents develop resistance to the latest generation of actives ingredients. | |
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