Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Roof rats can be a nuisance. They can contaminate food, gnaw on structures and spread diseases, although they generally ...

He also said roof rats carry disease and are known to chew wires, scratch walls, and eat through plastic dog doors to get ...

CHANDLER, AZ — It’s the busy season for roof rats and pest control experts say they’re plaguing neighborhoods across the Valley. Roof rats are common throughout the state but Zach Jolley ...

The palm rat's natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical mangrove forest. They are also known as roof rats. The Humane Society says there's no true humane ...

“We get probably a call weekly, if not more,” said Bradley Christian from Vertex Pest Control. Christian said it is roof rats and Norway rats they are seeing the most of – but even that was ...