Norway Rats Roof Rats House Mouse Deer Mouse

They have brown coats with coarse fur.

Norway rats roof rats house mouse deer mouse.

Common house mice and deer mice rats. Pack rats are distinguished from norway or roof rats by having more hair on the ears than either of the other two rats. Identifying the rodent type. Norway rats roof rats and house mice all live in groups with a dominant male a few females and their offspring.

In addition rodents are notorious for the filth that they spread and the diseases that they transmit. Norway rats are one of the two main species of rats along with the roof rat that are typically found in the pacific northwest. The most common mice and rats and the species that cause the most damage are the non native house mouse mus musculus norway rat rattus norvegicus and black or roof rat rattus rattus. Norway rats or the house rat are usually around 10 inches long.

They are more robust than a roof rat but with smaller eyes and ears. Diy rodent treatment methods frequently fail. While roof rats excel scaling your roof norway rats are powerful swimmers. Rats and mice can squeeze through holes just large enough to pass their heads through as small as for mice.

Small eyes and ears blunt nose. House mouse small all the way around with a tail as coated with fur as the rest of its body. Because norway rats tend to be larger their droppings are also larger about 3 4 inch long whereas roof rat droppings are usually about half an inch. All three of these species are in the family muridae which is the largest family of rodents and mammals in the world.

They are usually covered with coarse brown hair and have whitish gray bellies. They have brown coats with coarse fur and shorter tails that only grow between four and eight inches. Norway rat rattus norvegicus appeara nce. These families may build nests for food storage sleeping and raising young.

Rat and mouse nests. Small head small feet pointed snout large ears with some hair. Norway rats tend to look more well fed and rounder than roof rats with small eyes close set ears and a shorter tail. Species such as the deer mouse house mouse white footed mouse norway rat roof rat and wood rat are commonly found in bucks county.

Norway rats invade homes and yards through burrowing. Roof rat large eyes large ears slender longer hairless tail. Habits of each rodent. Each is capable of causing massive property damage.

Norway rat small eyes small ears stocky short hairless tail. Tail is shorter than head and body. A rodent nest resembles a loosely woven ball and typically measures four to six inches in diameter. Norway brown rats and roof rats our approach to rodent control involves ipm integrated pest management which is a thorough inspection in order to identify all areas where the rodents are active and including these areas in our treatment plan.