Preferred bait?
Thanks

PB, every time, for me.

A nut (almond, peanut, etc.) glued or wired to the pan, smeared with a little PB. I've had too many times when the mouse picks the PB clean without setting off the trap.

Usually use PB, but cheese does work too.

pattern movement and use rat sized glue traps screwed down..

Good idea . It's very irritating when they steal the PB and not get snapped. I keep fiddling with the pan settings to make them as sensitive as possible.

PB lasts longer, really long in fact. Cheese dries up and loses effectiveness. I always have a few traps set in case they somehow make it past the cats. That doesn't happen very often though.

I've trapped mice and voles literally by the thousands for scientific collections. PB every time.

Jack

Peanut butter

Choosy mice choose jiff

PB most of the time, but chocolate syrup in the cavity of the yellow plastic pan is good also. Hardens up in a few hours and stays good for a long time.

Peanut butter most of the time when I get a pesky one I will switch it up to chocolate. When I have to use a glue trap I use a Rat sized one with a chocolate wafer stuck to the middle of it. Works great.

PB work all the time.

PB - use sparringly. Less is better. Make them work the trap to get it.


Cheese is good for catching cartoon mice.

Drill a 3/8" hole in the wood base directly below the trigger.
Smear if full of PB.
Mice tend to worry the trigger sideways more when attempting to get under it for the goodies.

bacon or balogna

X2. No other way. We dehydrate plums. I find a piece of that or something similar is helpful to jam under the trigger and schmear with PB

Canadian sugar cookies that I found in the ditch work better than peanut butter for mice.

peanut butter with bird seed mixed in