RODENT BIO-SPOTTING

Bio-spotting is the practice of placing rodent control equipment in locations where rodents repeatedly return. These areas typically provide some type of survival advantage, including protection from predators, food and warmth, travel corridors, pheromone communication routes and concealed movement pathways.

With bio-spotting, technicians must think less about where equipment “should” go (according to spacing charts and/or customers’ perceptions of thorough coverage), and more about where the rodents’ biology drives them to be. Therefore, the approach relies heavily on careful inspection and behavioral interpretation.

Rodents are strategic animals capable of mapping their environment in sophisticated ways. They know their neighborhood. They know what’s to the left, to the right, up, down, where to find the goods, where there might be enemies (including stronger, more aggressive rodents) and they know where the safe escape routes are.

Bio-spotting depends on understanding rodent behavior rather than simply deploying equipment. Pest control is science. That means thinking less like equipment installers and more like animal investigators: studying how rodents move, feed and interact with their environment before deciding where control devices belong.