Hello PestList,
With the turn towards colder weather, we’ve been seeing an uptick in mouse sightings indoors. We’ve had several incidents of mice getting stuck on sticky blunder traps intended for insects, which of course is inhumane for the mice and rather distressing for staff. I’m wondering if anyone has experience using plastic covers for sticky traps (something like these https://www.epestcontrol.com/pest-products/724-2424-d-sect-ipm-station.html?srsltid=AfmBOor-T7jYA1Yrn7kxn5dPC8Re2HO0jcz7AZYJEFz9sUorwSbTuR5T or these https://veseris.com/default/insects/traps/crawling-insects/trapper-pest-monitor-station?srsltid=AfmBOooTWkbUWQ9xOhmOZRFsNJ_GT3ImWTsuCT1mimcbUJf1tAhvufOt) – do they actually work to keep mice off the traps? And, importantly, do they still let insects in? I’m concerned that they would catch far fewer insects and thus decrease the effectiveness of our monitoring program. Any ideas or experience would be very much welcome! Best, Jeremy Jeremy Kisala (he/him) Assistant registrar Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology 617-496-5473 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAP4ZP_0ZWnwskP2RhHZNpqLnDTB29CZBmHYF8PCfXo%3DSHnc%2BZA%40mail.gmail.com.
