I’ve been noticing a fair few very dozy flies in my kitchen this week. It’s far too late in the year for them to be happy, as the temperatures are too cold for them. They are so slow that it’s easy to swat them, but it’s still not pleasant. I think they are another sign of the dead mouse above the larder – the flies presumably have hatched out on the corpse, and are small enough to fly through the air vent into my larder and hence into the kitchen. Yuk!
Fortunately, Martin the pest killer has been around to put more poison down to deal with the new signs of live mice in the loft. He had a good poke around looking for corpses, but although he (and indeed I) could smell them strongly above the kitchen, he couldn’t actually find any. He did though give the loft a good spray with a strong fly-killer, so that should deal with the fly problem at source. I’ll just have to leave the Neutrodol in the larder to deal with the lingering smell of decomposing rodent……
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Here in Western Australia I would guess that most people do their own mouse and rat treatment. Most people I know use throw-packets of ‘Ratsak’ which contains some attractant with Warfarin. The rodents need to drink after eating and almost always die outside where they find water.
http://www.ratsak.com.au/products/throw-packs-for-hard-to-reach-places