Spoken like someone who has never had to rebuild a generator or find out the hard way car wiring is mainly soy-based nowadays.
EDIT: we did revert about 50% of the lawn to native wetland/prairie and we aim to raise that number over time.
You’ll find it’s less effort to mouseproof sheds than pretty much any other option.
Bucket traps with water are a good option. They auto-reset. They don’t maim and are no threat to cats/dogs like spring traps, do not kill predators and increase mouse populations like poison does. They’re more humane than glue, for sure.
We use a combination of those, spring traps (if we can put them in the path the mice take) and electrocution traps (in the house). We’ve killed 100’s of mice.
The other important thing to do is remove all piles of anything within 100 ft of all structures. Wetland/prairie is a good plan if you have a buffer zone.
Under no circumstances call Orkin. Complete waste of time. This comment contains more training than their technicians get, and they don’t do their jobs anyway.
(They can’t taste capsaicin, though now that I know that exists, I’ll pick some up for other projects!)