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Old 18-07-2016, 10:49   #16
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I would just set off some Raid bug bombs or foggers in each hold. Doing so, will choke them into leaving and will also kill any insects that are hiding. Of course, you have to be sure there are no openings for them to get back in once the smoke clears.

A piece of sourdough dipped in molasses has always worked for me. My dead grandfather's own concoction for mice and rat traps. It's worked 100% for me over the years. Maybe the strong smells attract them, and I think the molasses keeps the bread moist longer.
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Old 18-07-2016, 11:06   #17
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Glue traps
My house that I had to rebuild after a renter tore it up was infested with everything, actually field mice, the poison will kill them, they will go hunt for water, they will die and smell horrible in the wall of a house, behind cabinets etc.
Glue traps you can recover them.
I had a couple of traps in the Laundry room, the exterminator came to get me to show me something he had never seen before (we were living in a camper beside the house until I got the house refurbished)
Anyway what he wanted to show me was a mouse in a glue trap, and a snake just out of reach of the mouse, apparently the snake was after the mouse, but got caught in the glue as well.
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