field/deer mice

[fire_N_ice]

What is the difference? Do they eat the same food? Noticed a mouse peak his his head from under my woodstack near my shed as I was mowing the lawn this am. Will the chimpmunks eat the peanut butter if spread on mouse trap? I did not look for a nest.

Though my wife mentioned last week that our kids saw a snake in the same area.

 

[Gooserider]

What is the difference? Do they eat the same food? Noticed a mouse peak his his head from under my woodstack near my shed as I was mowing the lawn this am. Will the chimpmunks eat the peanut butter if spread on mouse trap? I did not look for a nest.

Though my wife mentioned last week that our kids saw a snake in the same area.

That I know of, not a lot of difference. IMHO though, any effort to do population control on them in an outdoors environment is going to be pretty futile and non-productive, leave that job to the snakes and other predators. The mice may nest in the wood pile, but you aren't going to carry any in with you in the winter, all they'll do is make a bit of a mess...

Gooserider

 

[LLigetfa]

Deer mice carry the hantavirus so it is important to ID them correctly. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peromyscus has a pretty good writeup on deer mice. If you treat every mouse as if it has hantavirus and trap them all, that would be the safest.

To keep chipmunks from getting in the mouse traps, put the trap inside a cage that the mice fit through but chipmunks can't.

 

[kenny chaos]

Why you segregating chipmunks?

 

[fire_N_ice]

Why you segregating chipmunks?

IDK I think they are protected in these parts or something.. do they have the same food/breeding/mess issues?