Rat Pest Control Penrith
Rats & Mice
When you want to get rid of household pests, you must choose a pest control service that knows everything about the bugs they are trying to get rid of. You need a pest controller who understands how the creatures behave, reproduce, and what attracted them to your property in the first place.
Barry’s Pest Control team has expert knowledge on all kinds of household pests and knows the most effective ways to get rid of them and ensure they don’t come back.
Here are a few of the most seen Rodents found in Homes in NSW
What You Should Know: Rats and Mice in and around your Home.
Roof Rat
Scientific Name: Rattus rattus
Rats are one of the most successful commensal species in history, adapting to our human environments with terrific speed and skill. Our infrastructure, buildings, and supplies have given them everything they need to flourish, so if you’ve detected a subtle scurrying sound coming from your roof, there’s a good chance your home has become theirs.
House Mouse
Scientific Name: Mus musculus
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House mice are superbly adaptable. The preferred house mouse habitat is indoors near human habitations but they’ll also venture outdoors in favourable conditions. In Australia, this is generally at the end of the growing season when they feed on loose grain in the fields. In this situation, the number of outdoor house mice can reach epidemic proportions in a short space of time. The house mouse dislikes damp conditions but is tolerant of cold. Nevertheless, even if individuals move outdoors when food is plentiful they’ll move back inside as the colder months approach.
Mice in houses prefer to live in secluded parts of the building. A mouse in the house might be found living in attics, wall voids or crawl spaces. Since they like to live near food sources they favour locations in larders, under food cabinets or, classically behind skirting boards. Once settled in a home, the house mouse doesn’t need a lot of space to cause a vast amount of damage and it can squeeze through spaces the width of a pencil.
Norway Rat
Scientific Name: Rattus norvegicus
The Norway rat; also known as the water rat, brown rat and the common rat, is larger than the Roof rat and its body is quite large, it has smaller close-set ears and a blunt snout, one very easy way to identify the Norway rat is by the length of its tail, it’s shorter than its body.
The Norway rat is found pretty much all over Australia, it causes problems for homeowners and business owners, especially in Major cities.
They are a very cautious creature and will avoid new objects for the first few days; they will use the same paths all the time and very rally diverts from them.
Rats are very well known for carrying decease and in the past were the cause of thousands of deaths during the (bubonic plague) known as the Black Death.
