I suspect that the reason is lost in time, but cheese is a very convenient consistency for the job. Far better baits are peanuts or peanut butter, or chocolate, or peanut butter mixed with cocoa powder - I have caught very many hundreds, perhaps thousands, using peanuts, peanut butter and mixtures of peanut butter. Peanut butter mixed with oatmeal is also one of the commonest baits used by field biologists trapping mice and voles for surveys etc. This person goes to SHSC. The person above is wrong, mice HATE peanut butter.
Pest management traps and glue boards are used primarily to catch and kill mice.
There's a variety of mouse traps available ; see relevant link .
Modern Inuit tend to use a rifle for hunting; traditionally they used bow, spear, harpoon or traps.
olive oil is one.
olive oil is one.
The mice will come out of the walls when they are looking for food. Place mouse traps near a food source (unset for two days to trick them to thinking the trap is safe). Once the mice are used to that food source, set the trap to catch them. If you prefer not to harm the mice, use mint. Mice dislike the smell and will run away.
No mice do not like cheese many believe they do but the cartoons are wrong but they do like; oats corn wheat black beans white beans navy beans kidney beans peas chick- peas grains maize Jam (Jelly- US )
It's a white cheese, and is often used on pizza. See the related link below for more information.
they used deadfalls and pit traps
they used traps
mice do not actually enjoy eating cheese. it is a myth created for anime videos etc.mice actually eat crumbs of food dropped by humansNoob, u just got ownd!
"P" Trap after that would be running traps