SEASONAL PESTS

MICE -The House Mouse is the most troublesome rodent in the United States. They cause damage to buildings by their gnawing and nest building activities, digging through insulation, chewing of electrical wiring, and by depositing feces and urine wherever they travel or reside.

Among the diseases mice or their parasites may transmit to humans are salmonellosis (food poisoning), rickettsialopox, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, hantivirus, and many more.

Control - exclusion, habitat modification, toxicants, traps.

RATS- Norway rats consume and contaminate foodstuffs and animal feed. They cause structural damage to buildings by burrowing and gnawing. Rats can also undermine building foundations and slabs, gnaw on electrical wiring or water pipes. They damage structures further by gnawing openings through doors, window sills, walls, ceilings, and floors. Considerable damage to insulated structures can occur as a result of rat burrowing and nesting in walls and attics. Their feces and urine, in the home are a health hazard also.

AMong the diseases rats mya transmit to humans or other animals are murine typhus, leptospirosis, trichinosis, salmonellosis (food poisoning), and ratbite fever. Plague is a disease that can be carried by a variety of rodents, but is more commonly associated with Roof rats than with Norway rats.

Control - exclusion, habitat modification, toxicants, traps.

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