Mice & Rodent Control Services
Why Do Mice Get Into Houses in the Fall?
In most of Massachusetts and Rhode Island the mouse in your walls is the white-footed mouse, a forest animal that spends the summer outside and looks for a warm, dry place once the nights turn cold. A mouse can squeeze through a gap the width of a pencil, and the seam where the siding meets the foundation, the corners of the garage door, and the holes where pipes and wires enter the house usually offer more than that. Once inside, mice travel the wall voids, so the noise above the kitchen may have started at the other end of the house.
How Do You Know You Already Have Mice?
Five things to look for:
- Droppings along walls, in the backs of drawers, under the sink, and on the garage floor are the first sign.
- Fresh gnaw marks and wood shavings mean activity right now, not last year.
- Dark smudges along a baseboard or pipe mark a nightly route.
- Shredded paper or insulation in a closet corner or along the top of a basement wall is a nest.
- A persistent musky smell in a closed room is a reliable tell on its own.
Why Are Rodents More Than a Nuisance?
The damage: mice and other rodents burrow into walls and foundations, chew electrical wiring, and nest throughout the house.
The ticks: they also carry ticks, mites, and fleas, and the same mouse that moves into your basement is the animal that feeds the ticks in your yard.
Keeping them out: the fall cleanup that keeps mice out, wood off the ground and away from the house, brush cut back from the foundation, leaves cleared from the beds, is the same cleanup our fall mouse guide walks through step by step.
How Our Rodent Control Works
Our rodent control is exterior and prevention-focused. On the first visit a licensed technician places two locked, tamper-resistant bait stations tight against the foundation, where mice already travel: in shade, along edges, away from foot traffic, and away from pet bowls, play areas, and vegetable gardens. The stations stay on the property and are checked and refilled quarterly, four times a year. Available in Massachusetts and Rhode Island as an add-on to General Pest Control.
How Do the Two Bait Stations Work Together?
Around the shop we call it the dumb mouse and the smart mouse.
The first station holds a professional rodent bait. A rodent that walks in and feeds on it is dealt with quickly. That is the immediate relief.
The second station holds a fertility-control bait made from food ingredients that qualifies as a minimum-risk product under EPA rules. It does not kill anything. The wary rodent that avoids the first station still feeds on this one, and then it stops breeding, so two rodents never become a hundred. By the maker's own numbers it takes a breeding cycle or two to show.
No-kill option: if you would rather have no rodent bait on the property at all, we run the all-natural fertility bait only.
What If Mice Are Already Inside the House?
Trap first. Our stations protect the outside of the house. If mice are already inside, set snap traps or glue traps tight against the walls along the routes they use, several at a time. Glue traps work.
Starter bag: every new rodent-plan customer gets one at the first visit: two sticky traps with a cardboard cover that keeps them away from kids and pets.
If the problem is bigger than traps, have an exterminator clear the house, then let us keep them from coming back.
Already on our program? If you do get mice, we come out, check the stations, and may switch the bait in one of them. If you are on our insect and rodent plan and find a dead rodent outside, call us and we will come pick it up.
Extra stations can be added for $5 per month each.
How Does It Fit With Our General Pest Control?
The foundation spray on our General Pest Control service is for crawling insects, the ants and spiders and earwigs that come in along the same seam of the house. It does not stop mice. The stations do.
Rodent control is available in Massachusetts and Rhode Island only. Our North Carolina locations offer mosquito, tick, and winter tick control.
Most customers run both together, bundled with their mosquito and tick plan:
- Insect protection starts at $29 per month when bundled with mosquito service.
- Insect plus rodent protection starts at $59 per month when bundled.
Why Families Trust Mosquito Mike
Licensed Professionals
We're fully licensed to operate in every state we serve:
Massachusetts Pesticide License: AL-0056510
Rhode Island Pesticide License: 6863
North Carolina Pesticide License: 026-40208
Every Mosquito Mike technician holds a Core Applicator License and completes our comprehensive training program before treating a single yard.
Trained Technicians
Every Mosquito Mike technician holds a Core Applicator License and completes our comprehensive training program before treating a single yard. That includes classroom instruction, virtual reality training, and hands-on field work with experienced techs.
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Rodent Control Near You
We provide rodent control throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our service is exterior and prevention-focused: the stations stop rodents at the foundation. For mice already inside, trap them (snap traps or glue traps along the walls; glue traps work) or have an exterminator clear the house, then let us keep them from coming back.
Two locked, tamper-resistant stations. One holds a professional rodent bait. The other holds a fertility-control bait made from food ingredients that qualifies as a minimum-risk product under EPA rules and does not kill anything. We place both away from pet bowls, play areas, and gardens.
Quarterly, four times a year, year-round. The technician checks and refills both stations at each visit, and the stations stay on the property between visits.
Yes. Tell us and we run the fertility-control bait only.
No. Rodent control is a Massachusetts and Rhode Island service. Our Raleigh-area locations offer mosquito, tick, and winter tick control.
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