Professional Rat Exterminator

Diseases

The hispid Rat is important in medicine because it is a host for hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). When rat droppings or carcasses are disturbed, the virus becomes airborne, and people who inhale the virus become infected. These rats have also been found to be a plague and murine typhus infected.

Infestation Symptoms

Rat infestations can be identified by the following symptoms:

• Droppings
• Sightings of rodents
• Burrows that are shallow and have multiple entrances

What Is the Best Way to Get Rid of Rodents?

What You Could Do

To deter Rats, keep grass and weeds as short as possible near all buildings. Close any gaps that could allow rats to enter. Because these rats can transmit the HPS virus, use extreme caution when handling contaminated items, dead rodents, and droppings.

What Does ATAP Exterminators Do?

Rats and other similar pests can be managed by your local ATAP Exterminators technician. Because every building or home is different, your ATAP Exterminators technician will create a customized program for your needs.

Rats can be kept in their place and out of your home or business with the right solution from ATAP Exterminators.

Diet, Behavior, and Habits

Nests

These nocturnal rats are active all year, constructing nests both underground and above ground. They easily transition from fields to lawns and gardens, particularly in suburban and rural areas. If the Rat population is large enough and their nesting sites are close to a homeowner’s lawn, their movements can create runways in the lawn that extend from nests to food sources.

Where Do They Call Home?

Rats live in a wide range of habitats with a dense vegetative cover that is rarely ever, flooded. They may occasionally inhabit overgrown ground cover near sidewalks or roadsides. These rodents are frequently found in:

• Barns
• Brush along fence lines
• Ditches
• Gardens
• Grassy fields
• Hunting cabins
• Lake homes
• Storage sheds
• Uncut grass
• Geographical Range