Rodent Control In Florida

Our Rodent Control Services

Rodent Trapping  

Our rodent control experts will quickly eliminate all roof rats or mice with strategic trap placement along rodent runways in your home. Since rats can often be trap-shy, proper trap placement is essential to prevent them from avoiding traps in the future.

Our technicians will identify runways by looking for rodent urine, feces, and rub marks throughout your home.

Roof rats often have families ranging from five to ten rats, so we will put out as many traps as possible to eliminate the existing population as quickly as possible.

We most often place traps in the attic; however, if you see rats within the living area of your home, we will also place traps inside along rodent runways.

If there is no attic in your home, we usually place traps on the exterior foundation of your home to remove rats as they exit the house at night in search of food and water.

Rodent Exclusion and Rodent Proofing

One of the most important aspects of rodent control is never allowing them to enter your home in the first place. By utilizing integrated pest management practices, our team of rodent control experts will seek out locations around your house that might be an appealing point of entry to a rodent.

In addition to sealing off any potential entry points that a rodent could exploit to get into your home or business, our pest control technicians will also have other tips and tricks for you to use around your property to make your home unappealing to rodents.

Rats can travel up to 300 feet and have the ability to gain entry into buildings through a combination of jumping, climbing, and gnawing.

With sharp teeth and the ability to compress their body to fit through small holes, roof rats can create various access points on the exterior of your home and can get through spaces as small as a nickel. By sealing even the smallest holes, we can prevent rats from getting into your house.

The most common entry areas we need to seal up include the AC chase where air conditioning lines enter the home, plumbing vents on the roof, roof returns, soffit vents on the eaves of the home, and gable vent screens.

Rodents also commonly enter homes underneath the garage door if the garage door seal is damaged.

To properly rodent-proof your home, we will use a combination of materials including steel and copper mesh, steel hardware cloth, concrete, mortar, and caulk to seal holes and openings around the exterior perimeter and roof.

At Native Pest Management, we are experts at providing exclusion work that securely seals areas of weakness around the exterior of your home that might otherwise be exploited by rats intent on getting inside.

Exterior Rodent Reduction Programs

Upon completion of our trapping and exclusion program, we will install tamper-proof rodent bait stations on the exterior foundation of your home to ensure long-term rodent reduction around the exterior of your property. These secure bait stations will be refilled and maintained monthly, every other month, or quarterly based on the recommendation of our team. 

It is vital to replace rodent bait regularly. If rodent populations are high, all of the bait will likely be consumed within this period.

Even if there is bait remaining in the boxes, the humidity will eventually make the bait moldy, and rodents will no longer be attracted to it.

Rats will rarely die within these bait stations. Once they consume the bait, they will usually die within two to three days, near where they find shelter at night.

Other mammals will rarely suffer adverse health effects from consuming rodents that have died from eating the bait due to the low toxicity of active ingredient within rodent bait, which is designed to only be potent enough to eliminate rodents the size of a rat or mouse.