RI, MA EHS Pest Control Blog

Everyone always states that mice need just a 1/4 ” void or the diameter of a dime to get inside a structure. Well, here is some visual proof of that being a fact! The attached image shows a juvenile mouse stuck on an insect monitor. The dime is there for visual reference. Let me just repeat that last part…..The mouse is stuck on an insect monitor, we use those to obviously monitor for insects. It caught a mouse, go figure!

EHS performs expert structural exclusion because we know that keeping pests out is vital to the success of our program. For rodents, if you close off a runway they use it creates stress on the population & forces them to do things they would not ordinarily do.

So next time you hear “mice can not get in through an opening that small” you have this picture to prove them wrong.

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What am I looking at in this image? What you see is a close-up of a potted plant on a window sill. To the left of the red leaf is a mouse burrow in the soil of the potted plant. During our inspection we uncovered the spilled soil on the window sill and investigated further. Sure enough the mice were burrowing into the soil in the plant and created a nice underground nest. This goes to show you how crafty and adaptable mice are. It takes an expert like EHS to investigate and uncover these types of things.

Sherlock Holmes said, “We must train ourselves to see what others overlook.” That is exactly how every EHS specialists inspects when in the field.

John Stellberger
President