The head and legs of the mouse is in proportion to his body. Mice have exceptional reproductive properties. At 35 days of life and carry mature embryos for 18 to 21 days. If the female lactates she may become pregnant within 48 hours.
Genetic factors, finding food and temperature can affect this number. The female suckling pups for about 4 weeks and can get pregnant during this.
For these reasons and in favorable conditions can produce young every 40-50 days. Under ideal conditions (which are internal) mice can breed throughout the year.
Newborn mice are extremely small, blind, pink and nude. After about three weeks it is completely covered with hair, make short trips from their nests and feeding on solid food. Mice usually live 15 to 18 months.
RATS
The Norway rat is the most common of rats and found everywhere. The roof rat is usually located in harbors and is also a domestic rat.
The males are capable of mating at any time but the females meet only during the warm periods, which can be extended to 9 months. The number of pups in a litter is 6-8.
They can do within a year from 3 – 12 litters, with, on average 3-6 a year. Newborns are dependent on their mother for food in about 3 weeks and then fed with solid food.
HABITS
Rats and mice have low vision and color blindness but the sense of smell, taste, hearing and touch is highly developed.
Usually active, half an hour after dusk as the environment has become quiet. When not bothered searching for food at any time during the day or night.
One of the favorite nesting places for rats is under the ground floors of buildings and other enclosed areas of buildings that can be used as a shelter.
Nests are often found in piles of trash and goods stored over months without moving. In residential areas live outside in backyards, garages, stones and sewers.
Digging in the ground with the front legs and fly back to earth, they also run at high speed, jump, climb and swim great.
POTENTIAL RISKS
Rodents usually destroy the homes and contaminate food. Considered responsible for a lot of damage done to homes and fields, chew anything material can be useful for nesting, such as paper, textiles, glass and hard materials such as bones, aluminum, wire, wood, etc.
The tooth enamel is 5 , 5 times stronger than steel.
The jaws can exert pressure 24, 000 lbs / inc2. They can easily chew plastic pipes, metal bins and extra can cause fires by picking matches their nests and causing a short circuit from chewing wires.
Pathogens can be transferred directly to humans by the bite of a mouse or rodent pests like fleas – ticks – lice etc, biting humans and mice or from contamination of food with feces and their urine (plague, typhoid fever, leptospirosis, trichinosis and food poisoning).
FIGHT
A comprehensive program rodenticide should be applied for effective extermination of rodents. The identification of corridors – nests and holes is very important.
Useful tools are available to combat such anticoagulant baits, adhesive traps and “lentils”.
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