What is a common method for controlling rodent populations?

Sanitation is a highly effective method for controlling rodent populations because it focuses on eliminating the conditions that allow rodents to thrive. Keeping areas clean and free of food waste, debris, and clutter reduces the availability of nesting sites and food sources for rodents.

By maintaining proper sanitation practices, such as proper disposal of garbage, sealing food containers, and cleaning up spills immediately, you can significantly decrease the attractiveness of an area to rodents. This preventive approach often makes it unnecessary to rely solely on more aggressive control measures, like traps or baits, which can be more invasive and require careful management to be effective and safe.

While baits and trapping can also be effective methods of rodent control, they tend to be more reactive measures. If sanitation practices are not addressed, rodents may continue to be attracted to an area, regardless of the other control methods employed. This is why focusing on sanitation is a foundational approach in pest management for rodent control.