As you might have guessed by their other common names black rats are spectacular climbers and will readily nest in trees.
Rat poison tree rats or roof rats.
Roof rats can be cautious.
The species that you are dealing with is actually the common black rat also known as a roof rat or a tree rat.
The following short video shows that rats can make a perfect nest in the crown of a palm tree.
The rat zapper should be placed close to a roof rat nest or in their runways said ernie henson president and owner of stormin norman termite and pest control.
What you ll want to look for are any signs that the rats are present including droppings tracks gnaw marks burrows runways and rodent sounds.
But in the rest of the world rats that live in palm trees are really just roof rats rattus rattus which also go by the names ship rats black rats or citrus rats.
The roof rat rattus rattus linnaeus is smaller in size than the norway rat.
Step 1 in order to assess the severity of the rat problem and to get a better idea of where to bait and trap you will first need to perform a thorough inspection of the premises.
Get rid of roof rats in four basic steps.
Another difference is that the roof rat is more slender with a longer tail than the norway rat.
The term palm rat is nearly always a misnomer if they are not in the great nicobar islands.
This rat poison block is multi edges and within a single feeding it kills roof rats house mice and rodents pretty well.
Its good for attracting rodents and also easy to mount on bait stations.