Turps wrote:
> Frank wrote on 06/05/2008 00:54:58:
>> PCOpug wrote:
>>> Gluetraps . Are there gluetraps in England ?
>>> If gluetraps don't catch em .
>>> Ghosts , you have ghosts .
>>>
>>
>> Glue traps are not that effective and cause slow death.
>> I'm not a PETA type but caught one mouse that tried to gnaw its leg
>> off to get out of trap. Snap traps are quicker and more effective. I
>> also put poisons in places that kids or pets cannot get at.
>
> I have found that we do have glue traps in England. However I am under
> attack from a wife and daughter who will not kill anything and demand I
> use humane traps. I found these ineffective - rarely caught anything. I
> prefer a hands off method and have found poison to be so, and efficient;
> I hardly ever found a mouse corpse.
>
> In this case the poison has been ignored. My wife and I do not think it
> is a mouse (or rat), the main reason is absence of droppings which has
> always been present before with mice. She thinks the tomatoes are not
> being eaten any more, but are shrinking from drying up.
>
> There are frequent sightings of queen wasps looking for nest sites, but
> we discount them as a cause because surely we would have seen one at the
> tomatoes sometime during the day. We usually have a wasps nest in our
> eaves each year but mutually ignore each other satisfactorily.
>
> Putting out glue traps on the kitchen side would be inconvenient, so
> after all we are removing the half eaten tomatoes, cleaning up and
> waiting for the next mystery attack before doing anything positive. This
> is known as the head in sand method!
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
>
Glue traps can also catch insects if that is your problem. I don't like
them for reasons given but have a couple out in areas that big bugs and
spiders come out occasionally. I have permanent snap traps and poison
set out in areas of the house since in spite of sealing all potential
openings, mice still pop up. I smear snap traps with peanut butter.
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