We all know that mice can be considered a pest. But they can be beneficial too. Mice provide an essential food source for owls, hawks and other predatory birds and animals. They may also be important consumers of weeds and insects. They may also eat cockroaches and other insects inside. Mice can swim, jump, climb, move rapidly over vertical surfaces, along the top or underside of wires and travel on either the outside or inside of pipes. They can squeeze through an opening larger than ¼ inch square. They eat about one-tenth of an ounce of food a day, and they do not need additional water. Each female’s litter will include about 6 pups after a three-week pregnancy. Females can have as many as 10 litters a year!
This placement is in recognition of wheat farmers and elevators, and how much mice LOVE wheat!