RATS & MICE

Rats are most active between dusk and dawn, you may here them scurrying in the night. There is other signs to look for:

• Rat Droppings: Rat droppings are easily distinguishable, their dark brown and are about 9-14mm long, usually found in concentrated areas.
• Scratching/Scurrying noises. The Black roof rat is an agile climber and can often be heard at night time in your walls and ceiling cavity. You may also hear them scurrying on sheds and floorboards.
• Damage - Rats gnaw on cables, wood plastic and food items.
• Burrows - Brown rats are known to dig burrows. Look for signs of burrows under sheds, decking and alongside brickwork.

The Scorpion technicians employ a variety of treatment methods depending on the location and severity of the infestation.

• Traps - Scorpions commercial quality traps are a quick and effective in controlling unwanted rats of all sizes in and around you're home.
• Bait - Rodent bait is placed in areas where it is out of access to children and pets, such as the sub-floor of you're house.
• Stations - Stations are a lockable box, with bait inside, designed to be placed outside, where it is not accessible by pets, children and other animals.

Yes! Scorpion technicians will use a lockable bait station. The station is then placed in high activity areas, where the bait is only accessible by key.

There is 3 main Rodent species that we see in Tasmanian homes and businesses. These include:

Roof Rat (Black Rat) - The roof rats are agile climbers and will often nest in buildings and roof voids. You may hear them scurrying during the night above you.

Norway Rat(common rat) - Norway rats are usually active at night and are good swimmers and diggers.

House Mouse - The house mouse is a small species of mice, who can live indoors and outdoors, generally within close proximity to humans.

Rodents can cause devastating damage to a wide variety of settings, such as domestic households, commercial business, livestock and farms. Rodents gnaw through many materials, spread disease, damage wiring and ruining food by contamination.

We don't recommend putting bait in your roof cavity because if the rats or mice eat the bait and die in the cavity it can leave a bad odour. This is why we won't put bait in your roof space.