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Beware of Rat Infestation in Your Garden Because It Highly Damaging


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Your garden is a beautiful place where you grow flowers, well manicured grass, leafy trees and plants. The garden can be just a kitchen garden where you grow plants and trees that provide edible natural foods like vegetables and fruits. Rats like such settings and North America has plenty of them in both residential and commercial areas. When it comes to rodent infestation of your garden you can expect rates to choose your garden because it offers food and shelter. Your garden has several hiding locations where you normally do not look often. It is easy for rats to invade your home periphery and settle in the concealed environment of your garden. Rat infestation is bad news for both human and plants health. If you have rat infestation make sure to call rat removal service such as BBPP, most effective in dealing with rodents including mice and rats.  

Types of rats that may take refuge in your garden

In North America, two primary rat species commonly infest homes:

Brown Rat (Norway rat):

  • Also known as Norway rats, sewer rats, and wharf rats.
  • Large rodents weighing 9–12 ounces and measuring up to 11 inches (with a tail almost as long).
  • Coarse fur ranging from brown to dark grey, with a lighter underbelly.
  • Originated from China and spread to every continent except Antarctica.
  • Live in burrows underground near water sources, often seen near waterways, harbors, and sewers.
  • Strong swimmers, capable of remaining submerged for long periods and swimming over 600 meters.
  • Omnivorous feeders, active at night, with poor vision but keen sense of smell and hearing.
  • Notorious carriers of diseases like Weil’s disease, rat-bite fever, and Hantavirus.

 
Roof Rat (Black Rat):

  • Also called ship rats or house rats.
  • Smaller, measuring around 7 inches.
  • Black or light brown fur.
  • Excellent climbers, often found in attics, trees, and rafters.
  • Prefer warmer climates and coastal areas.
  • Omnivorous, feeding on fruits, grains, and insects.
  • Less common than brown rats but still significant.

 
Remember to identify these rats accurately and call Rat Control Vaughan so rat removal is done efficiently.

Signs of Rodents in the Garden

How to detect rat infestation in the garden?

You may be surprised to see rats running around or lurking behind thickets and vegetation when you are spring cleaning it. You can easily identify rats with the above given description and there are further clues that rats leave behind that are clear giveaway. When you remove fallen leaves, branches and dried up bushes or thickets you could come across rats or rat nests. Rats are highly resourceful creatures that can wedge in to debris, heap of compost, pile of old things you have dumped in a corner, tree barks and foliage. Invading your garden is the first step towards moving in to a warmer and cozier place in the future that is your home!    

Giveaway signs of rat infestation

  • You will see plants disappearing partially or completely. Overnight you will see your seedlings, plantings and sprouts disappearing from your garden.
  • Gnaw marks on tree barks, fence and wood
  • If bite or gnaw marks are bigger than you can safely assume them as rats’
  • Coming across holes that lead to an underground burrow or tunnel, and they are made by rats
  • Rats often leave small heaps of soil when they create the exit point
  • Rats can attack your barn, outhouse or shed and leave bite, and scratch and gnaw mark. They will also attack food grains, birdseeds, cattle feed and pet foods stored in these places.
  • If you look close you will also find rat trails that they make by continuously running in one path
  • Rat droppings are prominent telltale sign of rat infestation

Once you have spotted these signs you will be able to trace rat’s nests quite easily. Getting rid of them may be a problem for you but not for experts like BBPP, the most successful Rat Exterminator Vaughan.  Call them on phone number 647-910-6315 or send mail to info@bbppcanada.com to get a free quote for your rat removal.  We are serving all postal codes of Vaughan L0J, L4H, L6A, L4K, L3T, L4J, L6A, L4K, L4H, L3L, L4H, L4L and nearby areas.

 

Could contain: Animal, Mammal, Rodent, Rat

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