Birds mice and rats.
Green roof rat.
Both roof rats and norway rats a stockier variety of rat can infest homes.
These rats can also transmit rat bite fever through bacteria in their mouth.
Toxic baits or rodenticides are intended to kill the rats when they eat the bait.
Roof rats spread diseases like salmonellosis through pantry foods contaminated with their droppings.
Roof rats feed on ornamental plants burrowing their way through vegetation and mulch.
Your green roof is an incredible engineering feat that provides insulation and stormwater management but could its lush greenery be putting you at risk for an invasion of pests.
Another difference is that the roof rat is more slender with a longer tail than the norway rat.
This will get the rat used to eating at that location.
Roof rats are known by a variety of other names including palm rats fruit rats ship rats and alexandrian rats.
Bees hornets wasps and yellow jackets are attracted to the flowers and water fixtures on green roofs.
Once on site these pests can build nests inside gutters within trees in bushes or on the corners of building walls.
The roof rat also called gray bellied rat white bellied rat alexandrine rat black rat and ship rat.
For effective pest control you need to determine what type of rat is scurrying around your attic.
Vegetated roofs are often touted as a way to encourage biodiversity but that isn t limited to the plant selection.
Roof rats may be attracted to simple food scraps including pieces of fruit and bacon.