They also devour a variety of crops including cereals sugar cane coconuts cocoa oranges and coffee beans and any feed intended for cows swine chickens cats and dogs.
Roof rats and pack rats.
There are three main types of pack rats within central arizona homes including the whitethroat pack rat mexican pack rat and stephen s pack rat.
The species found in arizona is the white throat wood rat also known as woodrat and new world rat.
A pack rat unlike most others has fur on the tail.
Roof rats usually prefer to nest in the attic of a home or office building but can also be found in trees garbage piles construction sites and many other areas.
Pack rats on the other hand are not considered true rats as they belong to the neotoma genus they are a different species.
They all carry diseases.
Also known as black rats roof rats have black or dark brown colored fur with a lighter underside.
While pack rats have a lot of traits and characteristics that make them stand out from other mice and rats when it comes to diseases all these rodents are very similar.
Pack rats carry diseases including the plague and their dens and droppings are also a health hazard.
There are over 20 species of pack rats from the arctic to central america.
Commonalities between roof rats and the az pack rat.
Roof rats threaten natural habitats because they feed on many of native birds and insects.
Both roof rats and the az pack rat need only a small crawl space to gain entry to your home.
Like all rats roof rats can transmit many diseases as well as contaminating.
They have long hairless tails that measure longer than its entire body.
Pack rats from the us have a simpler more basic diet.
It consists of shoots twigs and green vegetation.
Like all rats pack rats can transmit many diseases as well as contaminating food with their faeces saliva and urine and the parasites like mites and ticks that they carry with them.