If you store boxes in your attic you will make it ideal for mice.
Mouse nest in attic.
Mouse nest in attic nest of baby mice.
The only way to find mouse urine is to use a black light and it s horrifying to find out how much mouse urine is all over food prep areas and utensils.
It s common to find mouse faeces near food sources but in your attic it s likely you ll find them near their nesting spots.
So you ve got mice in your attic what next.
There are good reasons why mice like to set up nests in an attic.
They hide in the gaps between boxes.
Easy access to your home.
They reproduce very often up to ten litters of young per year per female mouse so they very likely have a nest of babies.
An attic is perfect shelter for the house mouse a warm safe dry place in which to live and create a nest of baby mice.
If mice nest in house your attic is the most likely place.
Your attic is the most common area that a mouse will set up a nest and it is the place where we have found most mice nests.
Tons of items to use for a nest.
Mice eat it pee in it live in it and have babies in it.
But since we are talking about the attic we are looking for nests probably made with insulation.
It consists of a ball of loosely shredded material all bound together two to six inches in size.
Even an empty attic is ideal for these timid critters.
Mice run along boxes with one side brushing against them.
Yes mice definitely prefer to live in the attics of homes.
And they love to chew their way into boxes.
Have you ever seen a mouse nest.
Yes if you have a mouse infestation or even just what you think are a few mice in your attic there is a nest of baby mice.
Just one pair of mice can result in hundreds of mice in a year.
But there are several problems that come with mice.
Mice like secluded places where humans and pets don t frequent.