Pest Control London Mice

The most common mouse you’ll find is not the Field mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) but the House mouse (Mus musculus).

Yes, mice behave as a group and spread to areas where there is less competition for space and food. So where you see one mouse, there are likely to be many more nearby. Furthermore, if you live in a tower block or apartment building and see mice, they must be coming from down below. It’s a good idea to alert the block management company and your neighbours below.

House mice are omnivorous and only need to forage 3g of food per day to survive, which is easy to do. They particularly like grains and seeds, so the bait we place down must compete with the other food sources available. At Inoculand Pest Control, we have found that the most successful bait is canary seed and peanut butter.

Glue traps should be used only as a last resort against mice. Inoculand Pest Control would only use them for certain commercial and industrial jobs that require drastic steps to reduce the mice population immediately.

There are basically 6 signs you may have a mouse infestation, but dropping is possibly the most obvious one.

Mice droppings can often be found underneath kitchen units, behind kickboards, behind the fridge, washing machine, or in airing cupboards. Basically, in areas with pipework that are left undisturbed for long periods of time. For more established mice infestations, droppings may be found inside kitchen units, on work surfaces, and behind furniture.

You can have mice, hamsters, and rats as pets. However, the food and litter material you keep for them will also attract wild mice and could lead to an infestation. It’s important to be extra careful and tidy if you have a rodent as a pet.

The most common repellent comes in the form of sonic devices. However, they often provide limited results depending on the circumstances. Many clients who used a number of sonic devices still experienced ongoing mice activity.

Other repellents include essential oils, salt, pepper, and bleach, but the result is often the same. These measures may help, but they will not take care of the infestation. You may end up simply moving the mice colony to your neighbours’ house.

The circadian rhythm of mice means they are more active in the evening and during the night, in other words, they’re nocturnal. On the wildlife cameras that we set up around our clients’ houses, we often see mice emerging several times during the night for up to 10 minutes at a time. Mice tend to come out when they feel safe and when things seem quiet.

No, mice do not hibernate. They will be active and breed throughout the year. Mice look for shelter in winter, somewhere they can keep foraging for food whilst being warm. This is why our homes are so attractive to them as they offer favourable conditions year-round.

The most outstanding differences between mice and rats are their size and feeding habits. Rats are far larger than mice.

Rats are particularly active in sewage systems, whereas mice more commonly dwell within buildings.

We can also easily distinguish between rats and mice by their droppings. Mice droppings are the size of a small grain of rice, and rat droppings are very large and much thicker.

Baiting is the most effective form of extermination, but sometimes it can be difficult to force mice to eat the bait when other food sources are plentiful.

Therefore, it is essential to use baits that are very palatable as well as potent. We use single feed bait that relies on second generation anticoagulant.

Any poison is only as effective as what it is mixed up with. This is why we use highly valuable canary seed bait over whole grain wheat, and peanut butter over plain pasta bait.

The House mouse is by far the most prevalent in urban areas and within buildings, but we still regularly come across Field mice infestations.

There are also reports of Algerian mice, although we have personally never come across these.

Back in 2008, Inoculand Ltd was founded as an environmental services company.Besides carrying out pest control in London, we also feel that we must give back to our community all the trust that we have been given. Therefore, we have created a Diversity and Community program. Our aim is to support any organizations and institutions that offer social aid through any means.

Non-profit organizations can under that scheme get free pest control contracts instead of covering mice control in London areas.

Please contact us for further information.

After the treatment and proofing is done, you might still wonder if rodents are around your kitchen. But how do professional pest controllers make sure mice are gone from your London property?

Read our mice population dynamics guide written by Inoculand Pest Control Head Biologist.

Prevention, prevention, prevention. A restaurant owner should know the importance of pest control in a restaurant and always assume that at some point his premises will suffer from pest activity either through deliveries, or by being infested by a restaurant near it.

The most likely pest problems in london for a restaurant will be mice, cockroaches, fruit flies and possibly ants.

The best way forward would be to request a survey so an integrated pest management strategy can be organised and implemented.

Read more on how to keep your restaurant pest-free.