This is a picture of a rat in a trap that I caught on my deck.
The trap was in a bait station. This is a Roof Rat. Notice the tail is longer than the body of the rat. The long tail allows it to have good balance while climbing in high places. The Roof rat originated in the jungles of China. Read the rest of this entry »
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Rat
Do you have apples on the ground? Do you have dogs?(feces) Do you have slugs or snails. Do you have unharvested vegetables in your garden? If you do you then have rat food available for rats that may be around. Read the rest of this entry »
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Cable installers have put TV cables through the ventilator screen without securing it to prevent rat access. This access allows a nice warm place for the rats to sleep. The rats can go out during the night time and gather snails, slugs or dog feces for food and then return to their nice snug nest in the fiberglass insulation. They bore tunnels up into the insulation and get between the floor and the insulation. They sleep there during the day so the home owner is unlikely to see them. If you have a problem that has happened like this see if the cable installer will come back and correct the problem otherwise call us at 457-4341 or 1-800-828-5508. We will correct the problem, install traps to catch the critters that are left inside and we will install bait boxes outside with traps in them to help eliminate the problem.
Cedar Boughs Touching the Roof
Cedar boughs touching the roof are a carpenter ant problem. The carpenter ants can move directly from the building to the boughs. Cedar provides a tremendous food source for the ant. The ants will eat any exudate or plant juices from this tree. If there are aphids the ants will feed directly from the aphid. They then carry this food down to the larva they are feeding. A Cedar tree is often where a carpenter ant Queen’s nest will be found. The nest will be at ground level so that it gets nearly 100% humidity.
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Rat
Rats are difficult creatures to control. We at Olympic Spray Service believe in exclusion. Exclusion is the process of making the structure where a rat cannot get inside. This is usually done with hardware cloth (HWC). Read the rest of this entry »
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It has been some time since I have Blogged about Rats. Mice can also be a problem but not nearly as often as rats. Olympic Spray Service technicians believe in using exclusion as the main form of rat and mouse control. Read the rest of this entry »
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Opening in Ventilator at lower left corner.
Notice at the lower left hand side of this ventilator has had the hardware cloth (HWC) bent back so that a wire (Television cable) could enter the home. The problem is that the one putting the wire through the ventilator did not go back and cover up the hole. Read the rest of this entry »
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Blue Atlas Cedar Touching the Roof
This Blue Atlas Cedar is touching the roof that can serve as a way for carpenter ants to get into the structure. Also Rats can get into the structure. The tree must be pruned at least four feet (4′) away from the structure. If you would like for Olympic Spray Service to do that pruning please call us at 457-4341 or 1-800-828-5508. Read the rest of this entry »
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Rat tunnels in fiberglass insulation
Rats in under house crawlspaces are all too common. This opening into the insulation shows where the rat is entering to get above the insulation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Rat in a Trap
A rat in a trap. I caught this rat on my deck. He had taken a liking to my barbeque grill. The family of rats had built a nest right on the grill. Read the rest of this entry »
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