Benefits Of Rodent Control

In our Atlanta service area, we see lots of rodent problems. Some are simple. Some are not so simple. But the worst kind of rodent problem is the kind that goes on for months, or even years, without a home or business owner realizing rodents are the cause. Here are some of the ways mice or rats may be affecting you.

  • If you don’t feel well, it may be rodents and not the flu. Often, rodent-borne illness is misdiagnosed as the flu or the common cold.
  • Mice and rats are good climbers and are able to jump a foot to two feet straight up. When they get into a home, it isn’t hard for them to find their way onto food prep surfaces and, since the mouse climbing on your counters and cutting boards is probably the same mouse that was climbing in your trash, this could lead to sickness.
  • When mice and rats get into a home or business and invade food storage areas they can contaminate food. Usually, this will not go unnoticed. It is hard to miss a package that has been chewed on–but it can happen. When it does, contaminated food can cause stomach illness to occur. If the illness isn’t connected to rodents, it can persist.
  • Rodents chew holes, and these holes give them access to places you wouldn’t expect, like the inside of your silverware drawer. That drawer may look like it is sealed, but there is often open access to drawers from behind. Rodents take full advantage of this.

If you have a tick, lice, flea, or mite infestation, rodents may be to blame.

  • When we get lice, the first thing we think is that our kids picked it up from someone at school. That lice couldn’t have started in “our” home. But, rodents can bring lice into a home on their fur.
  • If you have a flea infestation, but no dog, you’re probably scratching your head, along with those flea bites. But rodents crawl all around your home while you’re sleeping, and this can spread flea eggs everywhere.
  • If you have a house fire that can’t be traced to faulty wiring or a curling iron left plugged in, it might be rodents. When mice and rats crawl around in your walls, they chew. This can cause a wire to be severed and a fire to occur.

There are more examples we could give, but you probably get the point. The benefit of expert rodent control is simple. When you have an experienced and educated pest professional remove and seal out rodents, you don’t have to wonder if rodents are to blame when something goes wrong.

Local Atlanta School Battling With Mice

When you have a mouse in the house or in your business it is a very concerning matter. Instantly, you move into gear and do everything you can to quickly eliminate these harmful rodents including calling in the experts at Active Pest Control. Good move! Although setting up traps in your home or office will catch a few mice, this method is certainly not an aggressive enough plan to rid your space of all the mice that have set up shop inside your walls. Mice are very social creatures, and when you see one you can be sure there are dozens more lurking close by. This is a fact that Sedalia Park Charter Elementary School has learned firsthand.

This Cobb County school has been battling field mice since September, and losing. On the website for the Atlanta Journal – Constitution, it is noted that despite setting traps for this mouse infestation the mice have continued to thrive. The article stated that: “In order to control the mice, school officials have set traps outside the building and in classrooms, sealed visible holes and trimmed trees and bushes bordering the school, according to a letter Principal Karen Wacker sent to parents on Friday…Despite the traps, officials noticed mice in another part of the school after Thanksgiving break.”

Unfortunately, this is a common scenario when trying to fight an infestation of mice without the help of a professional. Eliminating rodents takes a multi-faceted approach which can include the use of pesticides, baits, and exclusion methods. In order to effectively apply these techniques, the assistance of an educated and experienced pest care professional is necessary. After all, one battle with mice is enough, without having them return a few months later because the ‘super highway’ they used to enter in the first place was never shut down!

If you have found that you too are battling with mice this winter, give us a call. Here at Active Pest Control we have the best and the brightest in pest control working to ensure your pest issue is dealt with in a timely and effective manner. We have been successfully eliminating pests for almost 40 years here in Atlanta. That’s a lot of hands-on experience waiting to work for you. Don’t let mice get the upper hand; call us today and experience the difference the Active Pest Control team makes!