"Good Music" wrote in message
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How do you trap, or even SEE to identify, suspected attic mice, when you
hear occasional running and clawing from your ceiling, but your attic has
blown-in insulation that looks like this?:

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from just the narrow area in the center of the attic where there is
plywood
flooring, I tried reaching over into the insulation area with a broom and
pushing some back; occasionally saw what looked like they could possibly
be
mouse-sized hollowed tunnels in the fluffy stuff, but no way I could see
any
vermin if they were there. Can't easily walk out into that area since no
flooring there, can't even see where the 2x4's are.

Is there any solution other than bringing in a crew to suck out all the
blown-in insulation, then exterminate any mice, look for & seal up any
holes
(and cover ventilation holes along the edges with screening), then blow
the
insulation back in? Don't know that our budget would cover that right
now.
I heard mice like tunnels. Maybe if I by lengths of say 4-inch diameter
PVC
piping, then nail a mousetrap inside each one baited with peanut butter,
then drill a hole through one end of each tunnel to tie a string to it,
then
for each tunnel, hold one end of the string as I throw the tunnel out into
the insulation... then pull the tunnels in by the string periodically to
check traps?

Thanks,
- Goodmusic



This is a great time of the year to place a box of d-con and a small pan of
water on that narrow flooring area. Refill both until no sounds are heard.
P-nut butter is an excellent bait if you want to empty traps. Just sit them
up there and they will find it.

And for all PETA People reading this!! If you have a problem with killing
the critters live with them and send me your address so I can ship mine to
you.

Colbyt