Dr. Chris Keefer, technical services manager at Syngenta Professional Pest Management
Syngenta
For effective rodent control, it’s important to be meticulous and calculated.
For example:
- Know the differences among the three common commensal rodents: house mice (Mus musculus), roof rats (Rattus rattus) and Norway rats (R. norvegicus).
- Be familiar with all types of construction used in your markets. Visit with a builder to learn more, visit structures in various construction phases, and build a teaching reference — a notebook with pictures — on construction for your company. This is important for accurately identifying areas and harborages prone to rodent infestation in different structure types.
- During inspections, make diagrams, take pictures and use technology such as thermal imaging cameras to help document conducive conditions.
- Determine what rodents feed on within the account and use that as a trap lure. If unsuccessful, use the opposite as a lure — sugar vs. protein, for example.
- If possible, approximate a commercial structure model within your facility for training. Set up zones of storage and non-storage, inspection aisles with widths between 18 and 24 inches, airflow issues and food spills. Remember, constant airflow causes rodents to lose body heat, which they do not like. Areas full of debris and congestion are more rodent-friendly because they decrease airflow.
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