If you are getting rid of black rats coming in from trees and off the roof peanut butter is a good bait.
Good bait for roof rats.
Get rid of roof rats in four basic steps.
Either species likes peanut butter and dried fruit.
Chocolate is an awesome option for rat trap bait because it is sweet and sticky.
While peanut butter is a popular choice you can also use whole nuts bacon berries gumdrops or dried fruit.
Rats are shy and avoid new things.
Rats also like foods that have natural aromas such as nuts shrimp stinky cheese pieces of chocolate bars and even beer.
Good baits for these rats include bits of bacon or chocolate dried fruit peanut butter or soft candy.
For some reason which i have yet to discover milk chocolate works better than its darker counterpart.
Pieces of fruit and bacon are particularly effective in drawing roof rats toward traps.
And it s also considered as one of the best rat bait for trap.
It s suitable to kill squirrels chipmunks also.
Peanut butter works great for snap trap electric rat trap and live rat trap.
Roof rats may be attracted to simple food scraps.
By contrast roof rats often are mostly vegetarian.
Generally speaking roof rats will prefer foods that are plant based while norway rats will prefer items with a lot of sugar protein and fat.
Speaking of catering for the sweet toothed rats chocolate is one of the best rat bait options.
Roof rats may sometimes rest in the tops of trees or buildings thus the name roof rat traveling to the ground at night for food.
Nontoxic baits or attractants are intended to attract rats to a trap.
They will avoid traps unless there is something very attractive on the trap.
The tomcat all weather bait chunx is the is block bait that is made for killing all sizes and types of rats mice rodents.
When it is felt peanut butter is also very sweet so it suits the taste of rats.
Our meat scraps won t lure them but peanut butter nuts or dried fruit certainly do.
Peanut butter brings out a sweet aroma combined with the smell of peanuts.
The 4 lbs of lures come into a plastic bucket which even useable directly to feed rats.
If you are getting rid of brown rats coming up from the sewer or in from the garbage cheese is a good bait.
Step 1 in order to assess the severity of the rat problem and to get a better idea of where to bait and trap you will first need to perform a thorough inspection of the premises.
My guess is that milk chocolate is sweeter.