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Has anyone used a thermal camera to find mice in the walls/attic. This bastard isn’t going for the bait pellets, and nobody is happy when mama ain’t happy. The last time I had this problem I found their entry point and sealed everything up and that solved the problem. Did the camera help? What cameras are good enough to do the job? Lastly, what medieval act did you employ to punish the intruder? | ||
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Try several different types of bait? Also, I have good luck with sticky traps. Put them along the baseboards near the “evidence” the mice leave, as that’s where they like to travel. They follow the scent trail of other mice. | |||
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Search Bucket Mice trap on Youtube. Different versions, humane or inhumane, water vs dry. They work really well, no need to reset, just empty. | |||
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Medieval act? I got a cat. She works pretty ok. __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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I do the bucket thing, but the spinner has to really be able to spin to dump them. I put a little bit of peanut butter in two small container lids in the middle so they really have to work to get it out out. Think of the lids that would go on a mini-cup at McDonalds for you to put ketchup in. You also have to spray some WD-40 or other oil inside the spinner. Here is what I use: https://www.amazon.com/Odesos-...tdoors/dp/B07FTQ6SM1 I also just set the old fashioned snapper traps without bait so I don't attract more in from outside and put them at entry points, along wall bases, etc. and will get them. I've found its too cold right now for glue traps to work. | |||
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I had a problem with mice in the chicken coop. Nasties left a trail of their dirt along their paths so I dropped old fashioned snap traps and sticky traps along the same paths. Old fashioned traps had more kills. Pellets were ineffective. I would say if you can easily put a camera in there do it so you can pattern them and that's were you can put the traps. I would stay away from baits in the house so they dont die in walls/voids and stink up the house (there's prob more than 1). Good luck - they are the reason I am a big snake fan. | |||
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One of my problems is that he’s in the attic or very high up in the wall. (Irreverent I’m allergic to cats). We can’t find any evidence of them being in any room on the floor which is why I’m looking for an exterior entrance, soffit, facia, siding. We only know he’s there because we hear him. He’s in a wall in a corner, one of them being an exterior wall. That area of the house has vaulted ceilings which makes it even more difficult to get a good look. Then there is the loads of fluffy blown insulation on top of that. The situation couldn’t be much more complicated. | |||
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Keep looking. You missed one (or more). They can get through remarkably small openings. Took me years to find and close them all at casa ensigmatic--and I suspect there's still at least one, somewhere, I cannot locate because we occasionally still get a mouse in the house. As for the mouse or mice already in the house: Dunno what to tell you. We place snap traps along areas they seem inclined to run and those eventually get them. We don't even bait them. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I haven't used IR cameras to look for rodents specifically, but they are very good at locating heat leaving your house and cold or hot spots in walls were insulation is missing. For exterior use, wait until its really cold and scan the entire exterior od the house looking for hot spots. If you set the temperature scale on the camera correctly, scanning takes very little time. Scan the exterior walls from inside the house looking for voids in the insulation where mice might be making a nest. You'd probably have to have a signifcant number of mice for their body heat to affect the surface temp of the interior surfaces. IR cameras are fun tools. I found three sky lights in my home that were removed by the previous owner and they didnt put any insulation in the hole they covered up. The cameras I have access to a high end Flir and Mikron products that aren't cost effective for homeowners. I haven't used any of the consumer friendly ones to give you an opnion. ____________________ I Like Guns and stuff | |||
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^^^^^^^^ As bendable would say, "call them man" Glue traps work well if you can find their trails. A woman from the co-op caught forty rats in her barn. She would hit the stuck mouse with a hammer and pull the carcass off the glue. | |||
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Had one at the old house, he got in by gnawing thru a vent tube, then climbed out of the register in the floor in the kitchen. I finally got him with a glue trap on both sides of the cabinets where he was eating the rid-ex for the septic system. I could tell because his droppings were blue. Figured out he had to be coming thru the heat register after I could not find any other openings. Crawled under the house and had Mrs. Mike turn on the heat, I could hear the air blowing out thru the hole he had chewed. Little bit of tuck tape and sew were GTG. I also put out Tom-cat mouse baits under the entirety of the crawl space. Never saw another one. We had just moved into the home and there was still construction nearby-I guess displacing the field mice. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Count your blessings my son is dealing with squirrels in his attic they chewed through the aluminum soffit. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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never used thermal, always used glueboards or snap traps, glueboards with a dot of peanut butter in the center, and for snaps, mix the peanut butter into a cotton ball, and strap (use a bread tie) the peanut butter infused cotton ball to the plate or trigger, so the mouse has to chew a bit to get the PB,, makes the snap much more sensitive, https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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Interior walls or exterior walls? (he asked not wanting to say "How do you know it's mice and not bats?") | |||
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Bar bait and sticky traps with peanut butter are your friend. Drop several in your home, and outside around your house. We winter a Mustang convertible next to the garage. I use bar bait on the engine block, in the car, under the car, around the garage inside and outside. Success by thinning the herd! P226 9mm CT Springfield custom 1911 hardball Glock 21 Les Baer Special Tactical AR-15 | |||
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my thoughts exactly. ----------The weather is here I wish you were beautiful---------- | |||
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He is in an interior wall probably less than 18” from an exterior wall. I’ve been here almost 25 years and never seen a bat. I’ve had a mouse issue 2 or 3 times before. My guess is a mouse. | |||
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+1 on bucket traps. We just use a pop can as the spinner. Mousetrap Monday on YouTube is a great site. Silent | |||
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Adding to this good info, Even the consumer grade Thermal cameras will display the heat from a rodent in plain view. If the rodent has stopped somewhere for a bit, it should show the residual heat for a very short time. But thermal probably won't show anything from a mouse moving around behind drywall. If it is accessible, you could scan the top of the wall from inside the attic. Any gaps from the attic into the wall should show up and you can seal them. You may also be able to find hot spots in the insulation in the attic which may lead you to where they have disturbed the insulation to nest. “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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