Typically roof rats are the black rat.
Roof rat warning.
Roof rats are destructive consuming and contaminating stored food and feedstuffs gnawing on wires posing a fire hazard and tearing up insulation for nesting material.
Once you have identified that you have roof rats you can work to eliminate rats from your property in the following ways.
Roof rats move into attics when the weather starts to cool and they will occupy your attic in the cooler fall and winter months.
Roof rat chewing and scurrying is heard overhead and makes a good night sleep unattainable.
Roof rats can be dangerous they carry disease.
Rat droppings urine and nest can contain dangerous pathogens and bacteria that can make you very sick.
These droppings may be near the dropped eaten fruit mentioned in 1.
You may see rat droppings.
They can also chew through electrical wires water pipes and cause other damage to your home.
Infamous for once spreading the bubonic plague to europe black rats are one of the world s most successful and widespread species living anywhere humans do.