How to bait for rodents?


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  Thursday 2nd June, 2022
  Author: Shannon Grohs
  Categories: Pest Control
  Topic(s): mice control, rat control, rodents control

There are a few different signs that Rodents are in your house. This can be that you might be hearing scratching noises, grinding and squeaking, this is key evidence to indicate that there are rodents. Roof rats are great climbers and can gain access to your roof void very easily. That’s why when you hear scratching noises above, it indicates their presence. In a lot of cases our clients have felt as if these noises have been possums but in fact it was rodents, if you are unsure give us a call 0458003430.

Gippsland Pest Management does offer rodent treatments, click here to book online. https://book.servicem8.com/request_service_online_booking?strVendorUUID=d457e649-9c5f-4f56-815f-950a5efb8d3b


Although Gippsland Pest Management offers rodent treatments, if you are wanting to bait for rodents yourself the below instructions can help you achieve results. You can purchase all items on our online store.

  1. First off, you will need a few rodent bait stations, around 6.
  2. You’ll then need to open the bait station. To open the bait station, you would use the key that is located on the bottom of each station, you would need to place the key in the lock and give the key a half turn only, this will then unlock that side of the station and you would repeat the process on the alternate lock.
  3. After you open up the bait stations, you will need to put bait inside. To do that there is a steel rod secured inside the station, to get this out you need to lift the rod out from the left-hand side.
  4. You will need to put around 6-10 pieces of bait on each rod.
  5. Insert the rod back in the station and click it into place.
  6. Then shut the bait station and lock it.

Bait stations should be placed around the home in places like your roof void, subfloor if you have one, behind air conditioning units, in kitchen cupboards, garages and shedding and anywhere there is activity. These should always be out of reach of children and pets. We recommend checking your rodent stations either when you are getting activity or every three months, whichever is sooner.

There is no benefit in checking the rodent stations more frequently as rodents can be object shy and a person interacting with the rodent station all the time can cause them to be less likely to interact with the rodent station.

Did you know that rodents can have 20 babies at a time! They can also fit through anything the size of your little finger!

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