Rural wooded area: mice getting into home and car, and I’m searching for solutions. What do you guys think of Evolve?
I’ve been doing catch and release for a while, but the population around my home seems to be booming. There’s an abandoned house nearby with a shed, and I imagine that’s amazing for mice.
I absolutely will not use killing traps or poisons.
I’ve just learned about Evolve from SenesTech. The active ingredient is cottonseed oil, which works as a birth control, disrupting both male and female reproduction to control rodent populations. It’s getting popular on farms and homesteads, and is apparently being trialed in cities like Baltimore and Chicago to reduce rat populations.
But I’m concerned about the other effects of gossypol, a toxin in cottonseed. I’m worried this Evolve product is being sold as a humane alternative to poison when it’s actually still just poisoning them, and could then go on to effect the rest of the food web in my area.
Do any of you know anything about this product? There doesn’t seem to be anything about careful dosing. And there is a warning on the label that says to take off contaminated clothing and call poison control if accidentally ingested. Even though the ingredients, supposedly, are just a tiny amount of cottonseed oil, oat flour, vegetable shortening, sucrose, cottonseed meal, and citric acid.