Biography of the field mouse

The fight against rodents description of the field mouse - a rodent up to 12 cm in size, 70 percent of the body length - the tail. The mouse has pointed muzzle with a mustache, butter-beads and round ears. The body is covered with thick short hair. The color depends on the living conditions-on the light red to dark brown. On the abdomen, the wool is lighter.

In young individuals, the colors are more intense, in the elderly, the wool brightens and gray if the mouse lives to an advanced age. A distinctive feature of all fields is a dark strip walking along the upper back. The hind legs are longer than the front. The claws on all paws are growing, as mice constantly dig something in search of food. With front paws, the mouse can hold the food.

Fields move quickly: running, jumping and swimming. Field mice have many natural enemies, so they rarely live for a long time. How much the field lives, you can say approximately. Under favorable conditions and the absence of enemies, the mouse can survive even up to ten years. In appearance and body length, the field mouse differs little from house mice.

Both types of rodents can coexist in the same territory, in one farm: the brownies come out in search of food to the garden, field - make their way into the house. In field mice, like many other types of rodents, teeth grow throughout life, so the animals have to grind them. If this is not done, the animal will die. Life and habitat of field mice live in families, which include several generations.

They are peaceful enough, do not divide aggressively the territory, can get along with other families on one site. Mice do not hibernate for the winter. They tolerate cold, make reserves for the winter, dig rather deep holes with a large number of moves, pods for supplies, bedrooms. In the moist and marshy areas, they do not dig holes, but build nests on trees and shrubs, adapting to almost any living conditions.

Field mice are characterized by living near a person. For example, they can winter in stickers, sheaves left on the fields. They also like to settle for temporary or permanent residence in the deposits of construction and other garbage, in barns, underground, basements - where you can find food. Field mice leads a predominantly night lifestyle. The animals are very voracious, in a day mice can eat the volume of food, equal to their own weight.

Propagation and offspring pregnancy in mice lasts 20 - 22 days. Females bring offspring 3 to 5 times a year. It is born at a time from 5 to 12 mice. They are born naked, blind. The mouse becomes overgrowth of three months, and it can survive on its own at the age of 20 days. What are the field mice feeds unpretentious in food, can eat any plants, roots, fruits, and also catch insects.

Most of all they love grains and seeds of cereals and other crops, root crops - carrots, potatoes, beets. In the absence of water, life -giving moisture is mined, eating juicy green leaf plants, shoots, berries. Adults can bite the bark of trees and shrubs. They love cereals, grain, flour, as well as products that find a person in the dwelling: bread, chocolate, cheese, cookies, etc.

What harm are the mice of the field as mentioned above, mice are constantly forced to bite something to grind constantly growing teeth. Because of this, they damage fruit plants, their roots. They can also bear the moves in wooden, brick and concrete buildings, in home and garden furniture. Mice spoil the crop - in the field, garden and garden. They eat any fruits, kidneys, inflorescences and plants.

They also violate the root system of plants, intensively breaking through the moves in the ground. If the mice made it into the barn, the underput, poured, grain or vegetable store, they destroy or greatly spoil the products stored there. Moreover, they not only eat them, but also leave their feces on them. It is also worth considering that these are very active animals that are found in a variety of places, including in the garbage dumps.

Moving around the vicinity, they carry on the paws and wool of pathogens of dangerous diseases: tularemia, toxoplasmosis, typhoid, leptospirosis and others. The fight against rodents from field mice and other types of small rodents is also beneficial. Firstly, they tolerate plant seeds, contributing to the expansion of their range. Secondly, they are an important part of the food chain.

Field mice have many enemies in nature: owls and other predatory birds, foxes, wolves, other predators. One owl eats up to a thousand mice a year. The presence of natural enemies does not allow the mouse population to become too large. But when the conditions for them are favorable, there is plenty of food, there is a place where you can hide from predators, there can be a lot of field mice.

Such favorable conditions, as a rule, are next to a person: in a personal plot of a private house, in the country. In this case, a home cat or a dog of hunting breed becomes a natural enemy. This is a good protection against mice. If there is no cat or dog, you need to choose one of the ways of struggle: destruction using mousetraps, traps.They come in different types: traps, loop traps, etc.

adhesive traps are common: glue, to which the rodent sticks on a sheet of paper or cardboard. Such glue, for example, is produced by the Moscow company Medilis Laboratory. Glue does not dry for two weeks and does not lose its adhesive properties. It is intended for the use of the population in everyday life. This method of struggle is effective with a small number of rodents on the site.

Scaring by ultrasound or vibration. There are special devices that emit sound unbearable for mice. A person does not feel him. There are also devices that are inserted into the mouse hole: they vibrate and literally survive mice from the site. Repulsing by improvised means. For field mice, pungent odors are unpleasant: turpentine, kerosene, vinegar, essential oils. You can soak the rags with these means and decompose on mouse paths.

Also, mice do not like ash: it can be scattered next to supplies so that the pests do not reach them. You can also scare away the field mice from the site, planting an elderberry, garlic, calendula on it. Bait with poison.

The easiest option is to add gypsum to the treat for mice: in the stomach it will get wet, swell and forms a cork. You can also mix food attractive to mice, with crushed glass. But the most effective way is bait with a special tool for destroying mice. The product, according to g, are placed in small containers such as lure boxes, trays, boxes, plastic containers, for substrates made of thick paper, polyethylene, plastic.

The product is laid out in the habitats of rats and house mice. In the rooms, the container with the bait is placed on the ways of moving rodents and, above all in the corners, along the walls and partitions, under furniture, near Nor. Lay out the bait in dry places. The distance between the places of layout of the tanks with the bait varies from 1 to 15 m, depending on the area of ​​the room, its clutter, as well as the type and number of rodents.

With a high number of rodents, the bait is often laid out in small portions. When choosing a means to combat field mice, it is important to remember that a poisoned rodent can eat or bite a pet, which can lead to its poisoning and even death. It is impossible to completely destroy all mice, but their number can and should be controlled. So that they do not annoy, it is important to keep the site and the house in order, to prevent the formation of garbage deposits in which the fields could have started.

It is important in the house to keep products in closed packages and containers, regularly cleaning. When mice appear, it is important to start the struggle right away, and not wait for a rapid increase in the population.