Good afternoon, my reader. The ground rat is the largest member of the vole family. She lives underground and is found in areas with high humidity, so she can often be seen in garden plots. And since it absorbs almost everything that comes in its way, it is easy to guess that this animal can cause quite tangible harm to any garden.
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What leads to the appearance of earthen rats in summer cottages and how to deal with such a pest if it suddenly wound up in your garden? Let's try to sort out these issues together.
What is the danger of earthen rats
Ground rats are predominantly nocturnal and reproduce rather quickly. They eat everything: roots, flowers, fruits or the plants themselves, therefore they pose a real threat to all the vegetation in your garden. These are cunning and very nosy rodents, so fighting them is a very difficult process.
Here the point is also that these animals very rarely leave their home. This means that the owner of the site can miss the moment of colonization of rodents and find them only when they have already greatly multiplied.
Reasons for the appearance of earthen rats
- Often these rodents start in dachas where a lot of food is stored. In warm weather, they fill their burrows with found food and then calmly winter in them, rapidly increasing their own numbers.
- Another reason for the appearance of such pests is that there are many different shelters in summer cottages.(cellars, basements, etc.), where earthen rats can live peacefully, not at all fearing the close presence of a person. After all, for their movements, they use (in these shelters) mainly their own or mole passages.
How to get rid of earthen rats
You need to start fighting with earthen rats immediately after finding traces of their vital activity. It is impossible to hesitate here, because with each new offspring it will be much more difficult to get rid of them completely.
Experienced summer residents recommend, first of all, a mechanical method for exterminating these pests. But besides the fact that this option is generally not entirely humane, it often does not solve the whole problem.
After all, earthen rats multiply so quickly that you simply cannot cope with mousetraps alone. The most effective method of dealing with these pests is considered to be the creation of conditions under which the life of earth rats (in your neighborhood) will become simply unbearable.
The essence of the main method of dealing with ground rats
The fact is that such rodents really do not like pungent odors and the presence of obstacles in the places of their movement. Therefore, consider this aspect when you take action against them. For example, you can do it like this:
- Pour warm water into a container, add Vishnevsky's ointment there and mix everything well.
- Then use this odorous solution to treat the premises and places of shelters of rodents.
- The pungent smell should discourage the rat from active movements, but it is still unlikely to leave its home. Therefore, take some more scraps of natural wool and skins and set them on fire. As soon as these pieces are scorched, extinguish them and immediately lay them out near the rodent habitats.
- And then engage in the creation of mechanical obstacles and spread ordinary spruce needles near the holes and in places where there are traces of the vital activity of these rodents.
Be sure that if you do everything right and on time, then the earthen rat will not like such conditions at all. And very soon she will leave your territory.
Do you know how to get rid of an earthen rat at a summer cottage?
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