At all times, humanity has had unpleasant and unwanted companions - cockroaches, rats, mice, spiders, bedbugs, and so on. Since ancient times, people have tried to fight them, since all these "cohabitants" bring exceptional harm.
The most unpleasant in this respect are rodents, which not only spoil the food, but also spoil the whole house, and besides, they spread a variety of diseases - it’s enough to recall at least the plague epidemics, which at one time had mowed down the population of hundreds of thousands. Moreover, rats, as the most aggressive representatives of this tribe, are dangerous for children - they can attack even without a clear threat to themselves, because they feel the helplessness and vulnerability of our offspring, which also annoys them with loud and quite high sounds. And the garden, if you have one, suffers from rodents (this time from any) - on hungry winter days they eat the bark, from which the trees die. Therefore, deratization is the most important procedure designed to reduce (ideally, of course, destroy) the number of such unwanted neighbors.
Folk Ways: Destruction
The dream to get rid of dangerous neighbors can be said to be sung in the tale of the Pied Piper. It would be nice if deratization was so easy to implement! This would solve many problems: called and drowned. In fact, the procedure is complex and does not guarantee a one hundred percent result.
Among the means used for a long time by people, the cat remains in the first place (and more often than not, the cat - their hunting instinct is much more developed). With the help of these animals, the deratization of premises is carried out constantly, if not reducing the number of unwanted neighbors, then at least maintaining it at a constant low level. Since the middle of the 17th century, terriers have been competing feline, though their help is more appropriate in impressive areas, for example, in a warehouse.
No less popular are a variety of poisons. So, you can mix gypsum and flour. A similar composition causes the rodent to thirst. Supplemented with water, it hardens in the intestines or stomach, leading to death. Sugar with quicklime works the same way - also one of the methods related to such a process as deratization. This is very effective, but does not work instantly. As a result, you will encounter the problem of intolerable stench when the dead animal begins to decompose, and you have to open the floors (or even the walls) to find the corpse.
Folk ways: scare
Even a very cool, experienced and powerful cat (or terrier) can not do 100 percent deratization. This is how many rats a poor animal will have to destroy! Therefore, people using very odorous herbs come to his aid. The same mint - peppermint or forest - very actively scares off rodents. The stems are laid out in places of migration or the interests of rats and mice. Alcohol tincture of this plant is also suitable - it can be dripped next to food supplies - mice and rats will not even come close to them.
Tansy, chamomile and rosemary are also good. Their smell reliably drives mice and rats away, and they will not come close to the room where it smells of these herbs.
Where ideal cleanliness is not essential (basements, storerooms, attics and sheds), ash can be scattered. The rodents on the legs have very thin skin, and the ash causes severe irritation, and the pests go away. Keep in mind that cats and dogs are also sensitive to this remedy: deratization is necessary, good and useful, but do not cripple your pets.
Modern means
Citizens and owners of summer cottages now do not have to conduct a tedious, costly and long-term war with any pests themselves. Disinfection, disinsection, and disinfestation are now the battlefield of the special units of sanitation, armed with modern and highly effective special means.
Carried away by the fight against rodents, some people forget about insects. This is understandable: in recent years, cockroaches and Prussians have become ten times smaller. Scientists attribute this to the massive proliferation of mobile communications, which have a detrimental effect on "home" insects. However, not only cockroaches and Prussians prevent us from living. Both pest control and deratization are the destruction of all harmful organisms in our home. That is, both the ants, who got into the habit of going to the kitchen for food, and the field hamsters, who arranged a pantry in the basement.
Such processes as disinfestation, disinfection, deratization, SanPin regulates very clearly, requiring strict rules. We will not consider the so-called biological method of extermination of rodents (in this case, dogs and cats come to the rescue). Experienced disruptors rely on chemistry and mechanics.
Rodent control can be different
It’s one thing to find out that a mouse nest was made in a summer house that was left for the winter, and it’s quite another to watch a city apartment attacked by mice or rats coming from nowhere. So there is destructive deratization, and there is preventive or preventive. And the second is much more preferable: it is better not to meet annoying, cunning and inventive rodents than to wage a protracted and often without noticeable war with them.
Barriers and Prevention
Among the preventive measures, barrier deratization is most effective. This is the treatment of the possible pathways for rats and mice to enter your home with special repellents. Moreover, an experienced disinfestator will appreciate the location of the nearest garbage dump, the debris in your house, the reliability of your neighbors, and the vulnerability of your home. And if to rats nothing but the locks on the door blocks the way to your house, the specialist will fix the cracks in the walls, block the openings in the common risers, replace the ventilation grilles (or at least indicate how rodents penetrate the house). Whatever you say, the deratization of premises is a whole science.
Chemistry to the rescue!
In contrast to the destruction of insects, deratization does not require either preliminary or subsequent processing of the premises where it was carried out. Still, not spray repellents are used, but additives to the bait. Moreover, unlike folk poisons, these additives mummify the carcasses of animals, so that they do not defile the air of your home.
The baits are placed in the places of movement and residence of mice and rats. Often applied pollination of entrances to holes or paths along which they roam the apartment; Warehouses, garages and large trucks carrying cargo of interest to rodents are treated with toxic gas. In the natural environment, deratization is a whole range of works, including the study of the places of accumulation of rats and mice, if they become a hotbed of mass infection or their accumulations cause significant harm to agriculture and natural parks. Next is pollination or aeration of animals directly in holes.
And the mechanics will not be superfluous
Of course, you can always get classic mousetraps. But rodents are cunning creatures. Rats are generally sent for reconnaissance of sick, crippled or old individuals. Strong and healthy will not lead to the bait and will not go to a suspicious place.
Ultrasound is basically a preventative measure. Such equipment repels rodents if it is included in a certain range. However, it also affects other animals, especially dogs and horses. Therefore, in rural areas, repellers are used quite rarely and only in those places where there is no domestic animals nearby or it is removed from its places of detention.
The next measure will be the same ultrasonic (or electronic) luring of rats and mice. The waves on which the exterminators work do not affect pets and cattle, plants do not react to them at all, they are not perceived by people at all. And not one of the household appliances "notices" the operation of such equipment.
The only drawback of ultrasound, which is carried out deratization, is the inaccessibility for him of those individuals who, at the time of processing, hide behind load-bearing (especially reinforced concrete) walls. But processing can be repeated!
Pest control has not yet outlived itself
Although the majority of our contemporaries have already successfully disposed of the main scourge of the past, Prusaks and cockroaches, there are still some types of insects that only pest control can cope with. Bed bugs also became almost legendary misfortune, but they are found, ants travel occasionally from their heap to our homes, and mosquitoes still annoy each summer. True, to cope with the latter, pest control is not necessary, the nearest supermarket is enough, and you can deal with ants on your own. But if the neighbors “gave” you bugs, and within a week you did not manage to overcome them, go to the professionals. The "bed" neighbors are unpleasant, carry some infections and are very difficult to remove. Do not spare money - sympathize with yourself!
Disinfection
The bacterial-microbial threat remains constant throughout the entire existence of mankind. True, in everyday life it is successfully eliminated even at the stage of origin: regular cleaning and maintenance of order within one's own apartment is quite successfully opposed to the emergence of all sorts of pathogens.