Roof Rat Trap Placement

As its name indicates this rat is most likely to be found in higher places and upper levels of the home.

Roof rat trap placement.

Bait is placed in bait stations to keep other wildlife safe and to help prevent rain from molding the bait. Choose the right place for your trap. One advantage of rat traps is the ability to recover the rat to confirm its elimination. These areas may include darkened corners along walls behind appliances and objects and all areas where droppings are evident.

After placement of rat bait stations avoid moving them. Place rat traps in high activity areas of the rat colony. Pre bait the traps without setting the traps to encourage the rats to the traps. For heavier rat infestations set the rat bait closer to 15 feet measurement.

Place your loaded and baited snap traps along high rafters and in places where you ve noticed rat activity like chewing or tunneling. Step 2 placing the rat traps. The most common trapping mistake is using too few traps. Place rat traps spaced from 15 20 feet apart.

When they are scared is when they tend to scurry and branch off from the walls. Because they prefer to be high in the air these rodents may climb on power lines or tree branches to get on the roof. When the traps are set check back every 1 2 days to collect the rats and set new traps. Only the hungriest and weakest rats will venture out to the examine the bait in a trap in the middle of a room.

Set snap traps to effectively and quickly kill the rats. Roof rats like other species of rats and mice follow along walls. They have very poor vision so they use the walls to guide them to the areas they inhabit. Tamper resistant bait stations can be effectively placed at the bases of trees and buildings to entice the roof rat to feed instead of seeking food sources further out.

This is where you will catch them. Rats are thigmophilic that is they like to be touching a surface as they move. Roof rats can fit through holes as small as one half inch in diameter. The rats will either die outside or in a trap placed inside the bait station instead of dying in your home.

Statistics show that more rodents are trapped on the first night than on any other night. Roof rats may sometimes rest in the tops of trees or buildings thus the name roof rat traveling to the ground at night for food. Since rats need to touch surfaces as they move place them accordingly. Probably the worst placement of a rat trap is under a light fixture in the middle of a room.

Thus traps should be placed off the ground in the attic rafters of the garage on shelves and ledges. This rat is less of a climber so traps should be placed in hidden areas along walls in dark corners etc. The most important technique for effective trapping is good trap placement in areas of high rodent activity. Place rat baits about 15 and 50 feet apart for rats mice bait placements are much closer.