There's enough of a breeze that the smell would be tolerable... seriously, do mothballs help to keep rodents away ? I figured they would just eat the mothballs and have another little orgy.

They eat oil filters, for chrissakes.

M60ti, VP180, QS8, M2ti, EP500, PC-Plus 20-39
M5HP, M40ti, Sierra-1
LFR1100 active, ADA1500-4 and -8