Rodents in New Jersey

How Do Rodents Enter Your NJ Home

Wherever a rodent can get their nuzzle in a hole or crack, they can normally compress their body through it. Mice can get into homes by holes just 1/4-inch large; Rats can come in through holes as small as a quarter. Rodents frequently get in through holes, crevices, vent-holes and windows in foundations and crawlspaces. Rats and Mice can climb up any rough surface, including trees or along cables to get into from higher up through vent holes, or in overhang holes and roofs. They can slide under garage doors or into sheds. Rodents generally get into homes in the fall as outside food sources go away and temperatures drop. Rodents are excellent climbers that use pipes, electrical wires, clinging vines, and walls to gain access to a building. They are capable of doing damage by gnawing wood and building materials. Mice are more of a problem to the average homeowner than rats. Mice tend to enter structures and build nests, store food, and cause damage to clothing, mattresses, and other household materials they utilize for nesting. A Professional inspection of premises by a qualified new jersey rodent removal company such as Terminator Pest Control is needed in order to locate the nest and determine the proper course of action to eliminate Mice and Rats.

Why be concerned about mice and rats

Mice and Rats are both rodents and are found on all of the world’s continents. Rodents pollute food with their urine and faecal matter and distribute hazardous diseases, transport parasites adverse to human beings and pets. They destroy food crops and fruit trees. Rodents ruin about one-third of the Earth food supply each year. Rodents can do appreciable damage to buildings with their unceasing chewing, which they do because of their continually growing incisor teeth. Rodents can actual gnaw right through wood and wallboard and even aluminum and cement. Mice and Rats can cause structural damage to homes and other buildings, in addition to ruining baseboards, cupboards and furniture. Rodents can even gnaw through plumbing pipes to get to water. Their chewing on electric cables in attics and basements may create fires.

As well damaging property, rodents can spread diseases, placing a dangerous risk to public health. Rodent-borne diseases can be transmitted straight to humans through bite injuries or ingestion of infected food and/or water, or from ticks, mites, and fleas that convey the infection to humans after feeding upon contaminated rodents.

Mice and rats have a pliable body that permits them to compress through small openings: Mice have bodies1 to 2 inches long and weigh less than an ounce. Rats can be 5 to 10 inches long not including their tails and weigh as much as one pound. Both mice and rats have long, thin tails that can double their length.

Mice and rats have a very acute sense of smell and hearing and are mostly active at night. Rodents are excellent climbers, effective in the water, and can leap vertical up 12 to 18 inches.

Rodents reside in groups of multiple males and females and multiply throughout the year. They have as many as 5 litters of 6 to 12 young each. Their Offspring achieve adulthood rapidly and are able of multiplying within three months. In the wild rodents exist for about a year. In captivity mice and rats have been known to live up to four years.

In the wild rodents naturally live in burrows in fields, woods or riverbanks. Mice and Rats have easily adjusted living in cities and suburbia in all types of buildings, construction sites, drainage ditches and sewers. Rodents bring fleas, mites, ticks and lice into dwellings and contaminate kitchen counters and food with their fecal matter and urine, distributing disease.

Rodents favor nuts, food grains, fruits and sweets but will consume almost anything humans consume. They require very little water, normally acquiring adequate moisture from their food. Inquisitive animals, they'll investigate new objects. Mice and rats are also animals of habit, constantly sticking to recognized tracts. These two features are crucial in curbing and annihilating rodents from dwellings.

The common types of mice found in New Jersey are the House Mouse and White-footed Deer Mouse. Additionally there are and two types of rats which are common in New Jersey, the Norway rat and Roof Rat.

The House Mouse is generally gray but can be a color from light brown to black. The house mouse is about 2 inches long Not including its tail. House mice commonly exist indoors and will spend their lives within 10 feet of their nest whenever food is readily accessible. House mice eat on many assorted foods, polluting kitchen counters, closets and food with feces and urine.

The White-footed Deer Mouse is light brown to black with a white underbody. Somewhat larger than the house mouse, it has larger ears and eyes. More common in forested areas, the white-footed deer mouse exists outdoors in burrows, logs, stumps or woodpiles. It may come in garages or homes in looking for food and protection once outside food provisions decrease in the fall or when its habitat is touched by human development. The White-footed deer mouse carries Hantavirus and can be a carrier of the Lyme Disease-transmitting deer tick.

Called the brown rat, gray rat, sewer rat, water rat and barn rat the Norway rat, is the most common rodent in urbanized areas. Norway rats are typically grayish brown and are 12 inches long including their tails, which are shorter than their bodies. Norway rats will eat anything and are skillful climbers, they will live and nest in buildings, sewers, woodpiles and ground burrows. They live in colonies, which can be large with many interlinking burrows.

The Roof Rat, also known as a ship rat, is detected almost entirely in port locations. They are black with large ears and eyes and a fainter colored belly, these rats are sixteen inches long from nozzle to tail, their tails tend to be longer than their bodies. Called the roof rats because they have adapted to the upper floors of buildings. Roof rats are dangerous because they spread bubonic plague.

New Jersey Rodent Control

Nonprofessional (homeowner) attempts to get rid of rodents may lead in rotting animals being captured inside walls where they give off a nauseating stink that is not only repulsive but can activate asthma and allergies. To avoid these potential problems, the elimination and removal of mice and rats should be left to a properly trained and New Jersey Pest Control professionalequipped to eliminate Mice and Rats in New Jersey.

How you can keep rodents from coming into your NJ home.

The soundest way to keep rodents out of your house is to get rid of food and water sources

Several of the things you'll be able to do to keep rodents from occupying your home include:

• Seal all holes and cracks in the foundation, siding and roof areas. This can be as easy as inserting steel wool in small holes, or patching holes in inside or outside walls.
• Forbid admittance to crawl spaces.
• Seal off all pipe chases and wire conduits coming in the house from outside. Wire meshing covered with caulk or foam is an efficient barrier.
• Fix leaks to remove wet sources.
• Install dense weather-stripping along the bottoms of all-exterior and garage doors.
• Remove leaves and debris away from the foundation and cut back shrubbery and overhanging tree branches.
• Tidy up possible rodent food sources and nesting sites.
• Stack away firewood and piles of bricks, rocks or building supplies out-of-the-way from the house.
• Remove all fallen fruit from trees.
• Place pet food and birdseed in well-sealed containers. Do not allow pet food out overnight.
• Keep refuse receptacles a distant from the house.

How do you know if rodents have entered your home

Unless an infestation is intense, you might never actually see a mouse or rat. So look for signs of rodents in your home such as:

• Rodent droppings close to food boxes, or in drawers or closets, and/or below the sink;
• Nesting bedding material such as chopped paper, fabric, or dried out plant material;
• Evidence of gnawing and chewing on food boxes;
• Signs of damaged structures allowing for entree points into the home;
• Rancid aromas coming from concealed areas.

The appearance of a single rat or mouse is not necessary the indication of infestation, but may suggest that a nest may be nearby. Rodents eat large quantities of human and livestock food but do more damage by contamination with their urine, feces, hair, and other filth. Rats may travel distances of 150 feet or more.

If you know or suspect mice or rates have gotten in your home, what should you do

As previously mentioned, Rodents disperse potential disease with every footstep they take. Getting rid of them as rapidly as practical is extremely crucial to protect your family's well being and safety. Contact a properly trained and equipped NJ Pest Control professional. A Professional inspection of premises is needed in order to locate the nest for Rodent Control. A thorough program of rodent control is necessary to eliminate infestation. Terminator Termite and Pest Control will guide the business and homeowner in determining the proper course of action to remove and eliminate rodents in new jersey.

If you plan on attempting to rid yourself of rodents by using a rodent control product. Please remember, Safely Use Rodent Control Products since Rodent control products, if misused, can potentially poison or otherwise harm you, your children, or your pets. For this reason, your should use a qualified rodent removal company such as terminator pest control.

Some interest tidbits and facts about mice and rats

A mouse (plural mice) is a small animal that belongs to one of numerous rodent species. The best-known mouse species is the common house mouse. It is found in nearly all countries and serves as a guinea pig in biology. It is also a popular pet. The American white-footed mouse and the deer mouse also sometimes live in houses.

Interesting facts about mice:

• A male mouse is known as a buck.
• A female mouse is known as a doe.
• A baby mouse is known as a pinky, or a kitten.
• Mice are partial of hard bread.
• Mice are unceasing feeders - and will consume just about anything.
• Mice are fertile breeders, bringing forth 6 to 10 litters unceasingly throughout the year
• Mice will give suck to babies that are not their own.
• Baby mice curl up once they're being carried.
• You are able to keep mice on a table without a cage, as mice are frightened to jump off high vertical falls.
• Some people think that fried mice or mouse pie is a remedy for bed-wetting.
• The biggest loss from mice isn't due to how much they eat, but what must be cast away because of contamination.
• Rodents cause more than one billion dollars in damage in the US alone.
• Mice tails are as long as their bodies.
• Never lift a mouse up by its tail. The tip of the tail may break off.
• Mouse tails have scales that assist with climbing up.
• A few mice do not have any hair at all.
• Mice have been domesticated for 100s of years.
• Mice are capable to see a few colors; even so, they lack the pigment that permits them to see red. They see shades of black and white and may be able to discern blues.
• Though typically classed, as herbivores they eat a daily diet of grains and fruit, mice will consume nearly anything they come across.
• Different than popular opinion, mice are clean - frequently preparing their home into regions specialized for food, shelter, and bathroom purposes.
• Though mice are climbers, in the natural state, they prefer to stay on the ground and build tracks through the grasses to link areas of food, water, with their homes.
• Some mice may act as dead if they are scared and cannot promptly run away.
• Extremely inquisitive, mice explore their dominion daily, paying particular attention to new objects or physical changes. Unlike rats, mice display no disapproval to new items.
• Mice perpetually leave dung in the regions they travel.
• The average mouse life spans is 1-2 years.
• A adult mouse weighs between 1/2 and 1 ounce.
• Mice sprang up in Asia and propagated through Europe many centuries ago
• The first mice to come into North America came as stowaways on ships from Europe.
• Rat and mouse bones have been recovered in caves where cavemen inhabited.
• Mice can create their own vitamin C.
• People revered mice in temples.
• Compared to rats, mice scrounge only small distances from their nest, commonly not more than ten to twenty-five feet.
• Ancient Jewish folklore forbade the consuming of any mouse-chewed food as it may cause forgetfulness or a raw throat.
• Cooked mice were at one time used to treat smallpox, whooping cough, measles and many additional ailments.
• Mice do not possess roots on their incisors.
• Colonies of mice have been discovered prospering in the provisions used on polar excursions.
• A mouse can leap down twelve feet without harm.
• Mice are nighttime animals.
• Mouse urine has got a fluorescent glow.
• Mice see better in dim light.
• Mice journey the same path again and again, leaving a smear mark - a buildup of soil and oil from their fur - by walls, pipes and holes.
• Mice can gnaw through anything that is weaker than their teeth.
• Mice can transfer salmonellosis (bacterial food poisoning) when food is infected with contaminated mouse fecal matter.
• Mice transfer rickettsial pox, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, leptospirosis, ratbite fever, tularemia, dermatitis, and Hantavirus.

For more information about rodent control in New Jersey and a Professional inspection of your premises contact Terminator Termite and Pest Control. They will be happy to guide the business and homeowner in determining the proper course of action to eliminate mice and rats in your New Jersey location.