Exterminator And Pest Expert Debunk 15 Pest Myths | Debunked
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- Entomologists Jim Skinner and Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann debunk 15 myths about pests. They talk about the real reason people get mosquito bites, how resilient cockroaches are, and the best way to catch mice. They also debunk the myth that all ticks will give you Lyme disease. In fact, only the black-legged tick (aka the deer tick) can give you Lyme disease, and usually only if it feeds on you for more than 24 hours.
Skinner is the president and co-owner of A&C Pest Management, a pest-management company that specializes in green approaches. He has over 35 years of experience in pest control, from ants to termites, rodents, wasps, and more. You can learn more about his work here: www.acpest.com/about-us
Gangloff-Kaufmann is the coordinator of community integrated pest management, or IPM, at the New York State IPM Program at Cornell University. She's been educating others for over 20 years about bedbugs, tick surveillance, and other household and landscape pests and pollinators. Her work also focuses on promoting IPM approaches in schools, public spaces, and homes. You can learn more here: entomology.cals.cornell.edu/p...
0:00 Intro
0:49 All mosquitoes bite
1:15 Mosquitoes keep biting you because you're sweet
2:04 Head lice jump from one person to another
3:12 Mice are the same as rats
4:06 Having cats will keep mice away
4:53 Cheese is the most effective lure for mice
5:27 A cockroach needs its head to survive
6:37 You can't see a bedbug with your naked eye
7:10 You have ants because your house isn't clean
8:11 You can feel a tick bite when it happens
9:08 All ticks will give you Lyme disease
10:26 We swallow spiders in our sleep
10:48 Natural oils like peppermint and spearmint will keep bugs away
11:19 Getting rid of flowers will keep wasps away
12:04 Concrete slab homes are termite proof
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Exterminator And Pest Expert Debunk 15 Pest Myths | Debunked
The "average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actually just statistical error. The average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
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My parents had a cat who would go down to the chicken coop (in the basement of a former granary) and take a rat a day. She would flip them over and grab them by the throat and then take them away. When she got a little older, she would sometimes have to wrestle them a bit, but she still usually claimed her prize. Eventually, she passed away, and my parents accidentally discovered an amazing rat trap. The chicken feed was kept in a deep cardboard barrel with a metal rim and a close fitting metal lid, so no edges to chew through. One day, Dad forgot to put the lid on when it was about half full. In the morning, it was filled with rats that greedily jumped in and couldn’t jump back out. It was at least two rats deep. My mom stopped counting at 50. They dumped them in a particular middle of nowhere, away from human structures. I’m sure the local coyotes and hawks were delighted!
yuck
Cat: This ain't no chicken coop, this is a rat dispenser
That is both fascinating and disgusting!
same thing happened to us once, there was a 4 feet tall drum where we would keep our feed for chicken and one day we discovered it was full off mice. and we also released cats in there to eat off those mice which they joyfully did.
On the farm we had an awesome cat, I'd say the Perfect Cat. That cat would spend hours outside a hog house or hog feeder, waiting in pounce position for a rat to stick its head out. I was never able to see the cat "interact" with rats. In fact the only evidence the cat was catching rats was the rat skins/pelts laying around the yard, turned inside out. I'd love to have seen how that cat turned a rat inside out, just like a professional fur trapper.
That cat would hunt anything. One day it was carrying a "rat" across the yard but it didn't look right. It was a mink.!! Had no idea we even had mink around. There was 2 pinholes in the mink's neck showing how the cat killed it. Since mink were worth some money at the time, I took the mink and sold it to a fur buyer. The buyer looked at me like I had 3 heads when I said the cat caught it. Had to show him the 2 puncture holes before he believed me. The cat got a reward for the mink. LOL
As a certified applicator in the state of Texas for 30 years, thank you for this video. My two biggest tools have always been, education and sanitation.
I love the respect and chemistry you and him have.
Yeah...but you do realized interactions like these are moderated, edited, re-shot and rehearsed right?
@@blogspot9257 Yea but some people are very awkward in front of a camera and with each other. These people aren’t, not a big deal.
Wow, why did people get so weird about your totally nice comment? I agree, it’s cute and they’re kinda fun.
I love the respect you and her have, too.
Advertisers need to have that quality. Nicely observed 😁👍
One more reason to avoid having cockroachs, at least in Brazil, is that scorpions hunt them, so if there are cockroachs were you live, it increases the chance of scorpions appearing too and sting someone.
In my city, we had to close a municipal park because ticks were transmitting a relatively dangerous disease (in Portuguese it is called "febre maculosa" if I'm not mistaken).
Ah yes! In the United States, we call febre maculosa “Rocky Mountain spotted fever.” Are ticks very common in Brazilian municipal parks? I hope your park can reopen sometime soon!
@@skimmylk, not usually, that was a particular case.
As far as I know that was the first time we had to close a park in my city because of it.
It seems a group of capivaras moved to the park and brought it with them.
And the park is now open.
That sound like braganca lol
if i could avoid roaches i would but they are such a nightmare
Indeed, Thomas! Im brazilian, and I still prefer to have 10 scorpions in my bathroom than 1 cockroach 😥 Idk if this is only here, but I think it is the worst country to born if you are afraid of cockroaches
I felt a tickbite once. I was walking in a state park, felt something pinch my arm, looked down and saw a black bug. I knocked it off and didn't think more of it. Until a few days later when I developed the 'bullseye' pattern. Since I knew the tick had only been on me for a few seconds, I asumed it was an allergic reaction instead of lyme disease (As my internet research indicated was the only other cause of the bullseye). The ring faded and I had no other symptoms, so I guess I was right.
You can still get Lyme's disease even if the tick was on you for less than 24 hrs. If your body fights it off that's great, but it can also show back up during times of stress or trauma. A bullseye from a tick bite is definitely Lyme's, but ticks can also transmit other diseases and co-infections.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Lyme disease can develop years, sometimes more than a decade after the tick bite.
From my searches, Lyme disease can happen in 36 hours, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever can happen in 2. So if it's only been a few minutes then you're probably safe.
Well fellas, I've been in the Davy Crockett National Forest in Texas for a two night three days stay and was completely unprepared for ticks. I had one can of OFF! Sportsmen insect repellant 4 that pretty much did nothing at all because I was bit at least 10 times from little tiny red ticks to full grown adult ticks. Some I felt and some I didn't, I just found them when I checked myself. From what that one guy said about it developing years after being bit I'm pretty much boned 🤷🏽♂️ I'd guess that none were on me for more than six to eight hours. That was back in April, so far everything seem okay so here's to hoping they stay that way.
You are not going to “knock off” an embedded tick. It can take a lot of force even when using tweezers or forceps. And if you did it would most likely left the mouth in your skin.
Hmm. I've been bitten by ticks multiple times and I've felt every one of them in some sort of way. They tickle when they crawl on you, the bite itches and quite often the bite is painful because they prefer sensitive areas were the skin is thin.
I've never felt the bite itself but have felt it crawl on me a couple times and was able to remove it before it latched on. Honestly though I've been bitten way more times than I caught it lol
I haven't been bitten by a tick since I was a kid, but as an adult I've caught them crawling on me many times.
To be honest I'm not sure if I'm feeling the bite or the area gets irritated where they embed because my clothing is rubbing over it and tugging on the tick and I'm just feeling the irritation. I get quite a few as they come in on our cats and after dropping off look for other meals.
@@wwiiinplastic4712 That's exactly the (only) way I feel ticks -- if my clothing is pulling on them. The one that gave me Lyme, I didn't feel at all. I just fell like a ton of bricks into a painful haze. Luckily, by about day 7 I noticed the bullseye rash. My guy took me to the hospital immediately and they got me on iv antibiotics immediately. That lymey tick bite happened when I was wearing shorts (no clothes to tug on it to alert me that it was there.) I have an outdoor cat. I brush him (using a toothbrush) with diatomaceous earth. It completely works for the whole of his body and under his chin, even. He still gets the small ones around his eyes and on his ears, but I pick them off quick. He NEVER gets fleas though because of the diatoms.
My cat watched a mouse go by and went back to sleep. He couldn't have cared less. My Saturday morning cartoons lied to me 😆
Hold back from feeding them one of their meals. Then they'll eat a mouse
one time my cat ran away from a roach, not a very good hunter cat
In Australia we have venomous ticks. We are told to freeze ticks off with wart off as you don’t want to have the head embedded in the skin.
I feel lucky to be an Indian
what more poisonous versions do you have of these ordinary pests??
Paralysis ticks.
@@specialbudgies4217 Correct. I couldn’t think of the right name. Old lady brain got me. Thank you.
In Australia you have the biggest big ass animals and colossal insects. I have seen the pictures. They are so huuuge.😆
Wtf Australia! Venomous ticks? Why??
Tick removal by covering their backs with petroleum jelly to smother them (as they breathe through their backs) is a technique which lessens the chance of infection from bits of pulled off ticks being left in your skin. They drop off.
How long does it usually take for them to die?
does it work for pets too?
This year, I dealt with bedbugs. Whoever said you can't see them needs their eyes checked.
My cat (indoor only) is an incredible mouser, and our home still experienced a mouse infestation this past winter. She killed dozens of them (and showed each and every single one to me), but she certainly didn't keep them from sticking around.
but having more cats definitely works. i used to have 6 cat at once, and never witnessed a sign of mice or rat intruding. cats are very patient hunters, theyll sit calmly for hours where the mice is hiding and would pounce on mice when they make a move.
@@zeuxlaught2797 6 cats at once, I wouldn't be caught dead in that house if I were a mouse 🤣 that sounds like a great defense system!!
Maybe it's because I'm in Florida, or maybe it's because I have a newer home (or maybe it's the concrete foundations), but I've never known anyone to have mice or rats in their house here - even people living on large tracts of land with acres of field around.
My cats do love hunting the oversized cockroaches that live in the yard and occasionally make their way inside; and the lizards.
As an IPM entomologist, this coming across my feed made my day!! Love it :)
I'm an IPM/entomogist in training / school and I absolutely love seeing this content reach popular media!!!
I used to have a cat that was a skilled hunter, he would leave the rats he killed by the back door. He would eat mice but just killed rats. I gather that to be good at dealing with rats the cat has to learn from other more experienced cats. My cat came from a farm, so likely had experience with rats.
WOW what a GREAT education. I am almost 70 years old and I did not know ANY of this! THANK YOU!
My dad is allergic to cats, so any cat we rescue remains an outdoor cats unless he's away on a long business trip. Once a kitten was abandoned in our yard. We brought it in, fed and took him to the vet, then we let him come and go. He was still half the size of an adult cat when he murdered about three mice. We didn't even know we had mice until he killed them. We calle pest control and they found the nest, but it was empty, with only dead babies that had starved inside. Panzer had killed all the adults. Now he can even catch pigeons flying low. We try and keep him occupied so he doesn't get parasites by wild animals, but apparently he's a born hunter...
Well, Panzer is almost certainly carrying toxoplasma then...just keep him outside. Panzer is also definitely killing any songbirds in the general area, if you care about that sort of thing.
@@ktakashismith He can't kill songbirds, because just like pigeons, they're too fast for him to catch unless they're sick or injured already, but in contrast to pigeons they are flock animals and don't separate even when sick and they hardly ever get on the ground, in contrast to pigeons, which don't mind humans and forage for rubbish on the ground. If he could climb ten meter trees I'd say you may be onto something, but he neither can nor is he allowed to. If he could catch birds in flight he'd be in the Guinness world record, since birds have remarkable maneuvering abilities and they can fly high far quicker than a cat can jump. We've never found dead songbirds, only a few pigeons with deformed feet and mice back then. I check, because I care. Sure he may be carrying toxoplasma, but he stays outside and I'm not planning on having any kids any time soon.
Damn that cat is a goat. Make sure it doesnt get diseases
panzer is a true killer of a cat
Try a raw food diet to give him the real meat cats need & give the bird population a break. Studies now prove what I've observed with cats over many years, raw diets decrease predation.
Although not scientifically backed I have a mouse control method that has always worked for me.
I live in a rural area and have fields on multiple sides of me. My neighbors used to always complain of mice in the fall and winter.
I keep snakes as pets. When they shed their skin I cut it into pieces and spread it around the foundation of my house. I have never had a mouse problem. I gave my neighbors some sheds and told them about it. They tried it and told me it cut down on their mouse problems. Has anyone else tried this? I have some thoughts on why it would work but like I said this is purely personal experience and not scientific.
I read a study that found that memory, to a certain extent, is passed on genetically. A group of mice that had been born and bred in a controlled environment. They were exposed to the smell of strawberries and then terrifying stimuli. They then bred and their descendants at least four or five generations later were exposed to the smell of strawberries. The mice that were descended from the first group absolutely freaked out. I believe that it's something like that. On top of that, many snakes eat small rodents like mice, so they'll have a natural fear of them the way we do of large predatory/highly agressive animals.
@@aarongibson9027 This topic was briefly glanced over in my college intro to neuroscience class. In addition to this, this fear of smells is deeply ingrained. Mice would consistently flee/panic upon introduction to the scent of a snake or cat, even with no other evidence that the animals were present. Only mice with their amydgalas removed/lesioned would not flee. I’d definitely wager the smell being at the root cause of reduction of infestation, so I guess just keep replacing the skins frequently enough that they don’t get stale/loose their smell
This is so helpful! I’m going to tell my dad. He’s spent so much money on mice and rat problems 😔
Hmmmm... I wonder where I could get the skins....
@@muddikissez22 Check online for a local breeder or enhusiast. Maybe even a zoo or rescue facility. If you don't have any of these near go to a reptile con and see if you can make a deal with a breeder.
I’ve been doing pest control for seven years and with their knowledge and education I’m here to learn even more! Thank you both for this!
5:00 the fact that he considers allergies is a show of excellence in his profession. I hope I never require his services but if needed a professional like him would be my first choice!
Probably the most informative one of these. So many fact about pest I didn't know!
I enjoyed these two people. Great information and delivered in an easy-to-digest format. Keep the good information flowing!
I totally agree.
What! There are people who think that mice are the same as rats!!! And I had high hopes for humanity. *facepalm*
Not surprising. Before I knew about it I thought it was British or American English kind of difference
In Portuguese, there are the words "ratazana" and "rato", the first can only be translated to "rat" (and it usually refers to particularly big ones) in English, but for the second, it can be translated as both "rat" and "mouse".
It is like "papaya" here in Brazil, that's just one specific kind of "mamão" that we call mamão-papaya (a relatively small variation), but in most countries that's used for all kinds of "mamão".
@@thomasfplm Olà! That's really interesting, some words are nuanced depending on the language, so it's always good to know all the meanings of the word and how we should use the different meanings. 😁
In our country, we also have just one translation to the terms rat and mouse, so I kinda understand why.
@@thomasfplm Isn't camundongo the word for mouse? I'm kind of curious now
I've been bit by ticks multiple times and I almost always HAVE felt it.
Happy to see Mr. Bates is now a business man after attending Lord Grantham for so long.
Yes you can... The only time I had a tick on me I knew it because of the extremely odd feeling it gave off... It felt just like something digging into me, like it was separating my skin .. Luckily I flicked it off immediately ... One of the weirdest creatures that tried getting into me
This is such a great post/video. Spot On. Kudos. Especially the education of what you are dealing with. I always tell my customers to change this or that. Don't always need Pest control. Ipm just as effective in some cases. Change the environment..
Houses that don't get treated for spiders always end up with yellow jackets in my experience. Treat spiders. No food for YJ. Same with other insects. Ie, centipedes, dehumidifier and get rid of what they are eating. True insectivores lol
Thank you for talking about different tick-borne illnesses, and tick bites being painless! I got bit by some tick last year and got a spotted fever illness from it. I have temporary arthritis due to the inflammatory nature of the illness despite having gone through antibiotics and being cured. One tick bite = 24 months of joint pain and fatigue. Ticks really are no joke, lyme disease or not.
3:49 I had absolutely no idea rats could kill babies! That's horrifying
So you don't know about rabbits and hamsters?
@@brawmankerlexterminateurde860 They mean Human babies.
Never seen Lady and the Tramp, I guess? :P
Rats can and have killed people
I once heard of a rat eating a baby's nose
Dunno if it's true tho
In Australia where we got heaps of termites, metal skirts are used on top of brick foundation pillars.
This was so informative. Thanks for this.
"Mice and rats generally don't coexist in the same place" my back yard begs to differ, I see mice, rats, and possums (smaller ringtails and larger brushtails) all using our fences as communal highways. Also living in Australia, having spiders and sometimes ants is normal in even the cleanest and well sealed of homes.
common australia moment
Such a good video and good chemistry. I guess your pheromones are attracting each other in just the right way
I have been an exterminator for 23 years. Enthusiastic thumbs up. I wish that I could show this video to all of my customers!
these people are so wholesome and obviously love what they do! have them on again :)
Thank you! Great video and good tips!
Useful info.
Thanks.
they are both so charming! and seem to have a genuine friendship :) really sweet to see
You know that cat toy that is a fish that moves like a fish out of water? I rubed some ham on it to give it a prey smell, made it move and saw how my cats reacted.
I have 7 cats, and only 3 of them were curious and ended up attacking and playing with the moving toy after smelling and seeing it for a while.
Those 3 cats are the only ones that bring home dead rats and that instead of scaping, they chase when they see a prey. So I would say, if you want to adopt a hunter cat, bring that toy filled with catnip and meat smell to the shelter to chose fjhsdkfjs
Thats cool lunch meat flavored cat toys
I often feel their bites - it hurts, and/or itches right away.
Jim looks like Mr Bates from Downton Abbey 😂
What do you recommend for silverfish that keep appearing in an apartment even after spraying pesticide throughout most of the apartment?
Yeah, I'd like to learn about them, too.
Hello, you can buy silverfish baits they work very well.
Very informative! Thanks!
I laughed when I heard the myth about wasps. I live in a tall apartment building no nearby vegetation and I've seen paper wasps build their nests on the steel railings of empty concrete patios multiple times (including my own). It seems they just need a home base somewhere to go out hunting for prey.
I remember when I knew my old apartment had mice, and my landlord refused to help with pest control. So me and my boyfriend had to get rid of them. We set so many live traps all around, and I was surprised how small the mice actually were. Eventually we did get rid of them tho.
They didn't mention mosquito bites is also a genetic thing, some people are more likely to be bitten
Or their body reacts more, so it looks like they were bitten more.
@@thomasfplm Well for some people yeah they'd react more but genetics plays into it too
@@RealFemale69, I'm saying that the genetics interfere more with the reaction than with the chance of being bitten.
@@thomasfplm But that's not true, it effects the chance of being bitten
So much good information, thanks
I work for Bulwark Exterminating as a Call center rep in Phoenix Arizona working remote. About to clock in now.
Love these speakers. They did a great job
I love these series
I like how professional they are when they conducting themselves
So if eating stuff affects our pheromones with it all the sugar I eat affect my Fairmont and make me smell sweet ?
Weird fact that I learned working as an inspector for a large pest control chain in the United States is, you can actually smell a bedbug or roach infestation as long as you know what the smell is. I could often diagnose an infestation without even looking just by the smell, of course I would always educate my customers and show physical evidence.
I keep finding yellow jacket wasps in my attic and I can't figure out where they're coming from. What should I do to get rid of them?
call a pest controller. There's probably a nest that needs fumigating.
Burn the house down
Maybe put one of those fake nests up in there. Wasps won't build a nest near a pre-existing one (even if it's fake)
Wow they got some incredibly experienced experts for this one. Like genuinely.
I can attest to not feeling ticks. Only had one latch on (my first encounter), but never felt them crawling on me, including one in my ear.
Yeah...some cats just are not hunters, either by inclination or lack of skill. Some are incredible hunters though; it varies from case to case. I've heard of ferrets being used for not only mousing and ratting, but that their musk scares the crap out of mice. Supposedly they can smell that there is a very dangerous predator in the area, and would rather not.
I've also heard (CZcams ratting video) of a guy who swore by Wheat Thin crackers slathered with Nutella, garnished with Candy Corn for rat bait.
Awesome loved this informative vid
Fantastic video!
i've never been bitten by a tic because i always see or feel them crawling on me before they get the chance
Anyone else feeling a bit itchy while watching this?
Bite from the Lone Star tick almost killed me! The cure (antibiotics) poisoned me. Total of one year and part of that in the hospital for me get my life back.
As a pest control technician of 11 years I can say all this is good valid info!
I grew up on a farm, we had farm cats that we used to catch the field mice and they did their job VERY well, our cats were THUGS when it came to killing mice, we had fat, healthy, happy cats and they preferred what they found on the farm over cat food.....they are field mice, crawfish, snakes, lizards, birds ect.....we also had indoor cats that should a mice make it into the house it wasn't there long, speaking from experience, if you know what you are doing cats are effective in getting rid of and preventing a mice problem.
Ticks are dangerous man. I got bit by one and contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever. It damaged my optic nerves and now I’ll be feeling eye pain the rest of my life. All from a tick bite. I despise ticks now.
so cute when they say NO together
mice will stay away when they know a cat is prowling the perimeter!
spiders not afraid of me they like to keep me company while i cruise youtube!
Most people who have cats still have mice or rats ! Perhaps less but not even shure.
Christian Hansen cats that are overfeed they are no good I have 2: living in the area they aren't fully developed seen them catch a huge rat , pigeon ...mice heave no chance.
In the middle of the night my cat choked up a rat hip and head on my slippers a few years ago
I generally can feel a tick bite. I have a mild allergy and it just starts itching so bad and swells up instantly. The only exception was when I brought some 20 ticks home, I couldn't feel the individual spots. I was just itching and breaking out in hives all over my body (I had been hiking light, didn't even bring a sleeping bag, just a blanket. Heaps of dry leaves provide excellent insulation. Unfortunately, they're something of a favourite hangout spot for ticks. I thought it was too early for ticks that time of year).
I actually learned something bugs today thank you!
I had 2 different ticks feasting on me just 2weeks apart. that was almost 2monts ago and both bite sites are still visible and sensitive.. but a month before that I went to the e.r with sick from a foot infection, the doc said it was likely lyme disease and they would follow up after 4weeks of heavy antibiotics.. they didn't, but guess its cuz they don't even treat lyme disease here in Canada
I have a major mole, vole or shrew issue. I've tried traps, poison pellets, smokers, chewing gum, coffee grounds, sound makers and ashes. these things literally push everything I've put in their burrow out to the surface and continue on with their lives.
I used to have a ginger Tom that would bring me home wild (dead) bunnies every morning 😢 I'm now caring for two orphan kittens who started by hunting mice but moved onto voles as they were much easier to catch. Yep made no difference to my mouse problem, that aside very interesting video thanks 👍
Really interesting 👌. Thanks!!
I enjoyed this video. These two remind of two longtime best friends just chilling and teaching each other stuff. Bring them back for another video please
I have absolutely felt ticks not only crawl on me, I felt it bite me. (Coos Bay Oregon in June 2021 was absolutely infested with ticks.
Whenever there's a mouse in a room, literally all I do is put my cat in that room for a while and I am 100% sure they smell the cat and do not come out anymore .
I've felt the tick walking on me many times, and more often than not, I can tell if they've bit me. We have a lot of ticks around here. A lot
Estimating... I've likely had about a hundred tick bites over the years and I definitely feel when they bite. It's a very specific type of itch. I work outside and carry DEET bug spray but don't always remember to USE it.
I did feel a tick bite (once) where I felt almost a sting like sensation on my back. When I checked it out I had a tick on the spot where I felt that. So I'd say in some cases you can feel a tick bite.
I have excess fleas and ticks in yard due to “many” squirrels, deer, fox, raccoons, etc. I have 78 acres to front across street, 100 acres to the left side of yard. My indoor dog (never) had a flea till he walked out 3 feet into grass. He was covered! I have many mosquitos as well. What is best chemical to spray in 30gallon broadcast sprayer for entire 1.2 acres.
These two could be best friends lol
Concerning mosquitoes, I've noticed that they really like to bite me, but they get sort of 'drunk' afterwards. They fly in front of me everytime they've done so and just flutter about in weird patterns like an idiot then just land in front of me to bite me again and don't react in time when I squish 'em.
I had a tick from cleaning my windows up against bushes. I only found it because it was running on the spot while feeding from my leg.
I had ants in my bathroom all over my girlfriends bodywash.
My 16 year old cat caught a rat recently. He's a legend
I had no idea that yellow jackets are actually wasps! 🤯 Great info in this video.
I had cats in my house a long time ago . Then there were no mice or rats in or near our house . But eventually she passed away and I gave all her kittens to them who wanted to adopt cats and didn't keep them for me . After that the rat population suddenly increased in my area . I quickly adopted a kitten and raised her , now she is 1 year old and I don't find any rats now near my house. She was just a month old when I adopted her and I taught her to catch mice from 3 months of age . Cats, if trained can be exceptionally successful Apex Predators.
I have an anecdote about house cats and mice. I own two indoor cats. I adopted them at the same time from a home where they were fostered together and had already bonded. They're about the same age but have different mothers. One's mother was a barn cat, and the other's mother was a fat lazy housecat. Just before the big freeze that took out the power in most of Texas for entirely too long, for the first time ever I had mice coming into my apartment trying to get away from the cold. The one whose mother was a housecat would be curious about the mice when she saw them, but when they'd start moving she'd swat at them and jump backwards. Meanwhile, the one whose mother was a barn cat would pick them up and carry them around like she does with her little toy mice. I was able to get her to drop them into an empty box and I'd go fling them outside by the dumpster. She caught sixteen in one night and we never had another problem with mice.
It should be noted these weren't your standard house mice, I positively identified them as Texas mice (Peromyscus attwateri), and identification later reinforced when I worked in pest control for a while before realizing working outside in a place that has high humidity and gets over 100 degrees farenheit in the summer is not for me. These are usually found in forests and fields, I assume they came from the nearby overgrown abandoned golf course seeking shelter from the cold. I know how they got in, too; my apartment had washer and dryer connections but I had nothing to hook up to them and there wasn't a grate or anything on the outside of the dryer vent.
We live in an area that has a big problem with those lyme ticks. Yes you absolutely can feels their bite as the spot can start to itch.. Also you CAN feel them walking in you, if you have hairy limbs like I do. This totally depends of a person and the tick, and there's no one general answer to this. Sometimes you can, sometimes you cant.
This is what I've done - not telling anyone else to do any of this. I've caught a lot of rats and mice over the years. Best lure is peanut butter. Chance of allergies? Good point & I don't eat p.b. so I've been using almond butter - same effectiveness. I've caught these critters in California, NYC, Montreal, Michigan - I don't know why they bother mentioning the other baits.) However, you have to make a tangle of hair, thread or monofilament on the trap trigger before you put your almond butter. You want them to use their teeth. If you just put the 'butter on the trigger, they'll lick it clean every time. Even cotton thread which they can easily gnaw through will get in their teeth, they'll pull releasing the trigger.
Argentine ants? An invasive species. I live in an old house with more holes than walls. Forget Terro - that's just a costly $$ long term ant feeding system. Just use little cups, thick sugar water, a little bit of boric acid roach powder. When the ants are fully busy with your mix, add more boric acid - they won't even slow down - but you will begin to kill the entire nest. Be careful. Don't do this around children who might eat the solution. Boric acid is in eye drops, but it's toxic if swallowed. One time I had three working ant nests in my house, I didn't know until one by one I could tell they were wiped out. When you wipe out an argentine ant problem you probably won't see any for a year. I once had about a three year period with no ants- I asked the neighbors if they'd been spraying. Nope.
On the topic of mice and cats, I read an article that said cats can carry toxoplasmosis which can attract mice.
For me ants and spiders aren’t pests. On the contrary I love having them, they eat bug pests. And ants take out the the little food scraps on my floor
I spend a lot of time outside in areas riddled with ticks. I feel the little fuckers because I pay attention and check my bare skin every 5 minutes or so. I do feel them crawling up my leg. I may not feel the bite itself but I usually catch the feeling of the bite very shortly after, if I am alert and not too engaged in other matters. If you cultivate the awareness you’ll catch most of them, very early on.
I've felt a tick bite, I know, because wen my dad (who is a pet vet) has pulled it out, it didn't dring almost any blood, but it had Borrelia bacterium, so I had to take antibiotics for 2 weeks just to be sure (my grandma had died just 2 months before, so my mom wanted to prevent any chance of death).
Real good job.
That dude just seems like such a happy guy.
We've had one mouse in our house over the almost 10 years we've lived here. I think it's probably to do with the fact that there are a lot of outside cats roaming our neighbourhood that mice and rats just tend to stay away.
As a Canadian Pest Control professional for over twelve years, I endorse this message.
A few weeks ago, I had a leaky pipe. The maintenance guy had to cut a hole in the wall. I got bit a lot by something that week. While I was cleaning, I found tiny bugs and looked at them through a microscope. I’m pretty sure I found rat mites. There are rats in the walls.
Thank you