Rodent Control in Charlotte, NC
Rats and mice can carry dangerous diseases and can spread them through feces, urine, bites, and saliva. They can also gnaw on drywall, flooring, and more, damaging your home, and can chew through wires, creating a fire hazard.
Several rodent species call North Carolina their home, and if you suspect an infestation in your house, responding proactively is key. If you live in the Greater Charlotte metro area and you need fast and effective rodent removal services, contact us online for help or call 704-499-9922.
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Signs That You Have a Rodent Problem
If you notice any of these signs in your home, you most likely have a rodent problem:
- Scratching or scampering noises in walls or attic
- Dark, moist droppings in kitchen or pantry
- Gnawed wires, wood, drywall, cardboard, or food packaging
- Unusual pet behavior (dogs/cats reacting to unseen movement)
- Musky odors near hidden spaces
- Unpleasant odors from rodent urine
- Rodent nests made of organic matter
- Small rodent pathways through your home
Droppings are one of the major signs of a rodent infestation. Rats can produce three dozen or more droppings per night, usually in clusters. These droppings can look like dark grains of rice.
Rodent pathways are another common sign. Although rats are nocturnal, they don’t see especially well at night, so they often re-use the same routes when they walk, such as along baseboards and walls. Check those areas, low to the ground, for dark, greasy smudges.
Rats like to huddle in warm places. They often build their nests close to food sources (such as your pantry or kitchen), so if you’re searching for nests, check under appliances and in other hidden places.
Rats’ teeth never stop growing, so they can grow by five inches each year, allowing them to gnaw through material as tough as cinder blocks. These gnaw marks are key signs of infestations. Rats also make an odd grinding noise with their teeth, known as bruxing. If you hear these sounds, you may have a rodent problem.
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Our Rodent Control Process
Noosa’s thorough and personalized rodent-control process makes us stand out from other exterminators. Our trained experts utilize the latest methods to ensure effective treatment, getting rid of all rodents from your Charlotte home.
Step 1: Inspection and Identification
Our rat and mouse exterminators thoroughly inspect your home, including the attic, basement, roof, and any crawl spaces. They look for all possible entry points. They also inspect the outside of your home and your yard.
Our exterminators seek out all food and water sources in your home, since these keep mice and rats coming back.
Our exterminators also identify all signs of rodent infestation and search out all rat and mouse nests in your home. They then identify the mice or rats infesting your home.
Once all necessary information has been gathered, our rodent-control experts create a personalized plan of action to deal with your infestation.
Step 2: Exclusion and Sealing
Noosa’s rodent-control experts fill in all gaps and cracks in your home, including cracks near windows, doors, and baseboards. Our exterminators always choose the appropriate materials for each situation. This exclusion service removes access points to prevent future infestations.
Step 3: Low-Impact Treatments
Our exterminators remove rats and mice, and they then utilize the appropriate rodent-control methods. This may include setting traps and bait stations around your home as needed.
In the case of severe rodent infestations, fumigation or rodenticides may be required, but only when all other options have been considered.
Our rodent-control experts may also apply rodent repellents around the perimeter of your home to prevent future infestations. These repellents can last for weeks or months, based on a variety of factors.
Step 4: Sanitation and Prevention
Our rodent-control professionals clean all contaminated areas, removing droppings, nests, and dead rats and mice. They future-proof your home and your yard against rodent infestations, removing access to food and water sources. Finally, they create a maintenance plan, preventing future infestations.
Why Choose Noosa for Rodent Control?
Our locally owned and operated pest control company is headed up by Fred Wingate. We have over two decades of experience when it comes to handling rat and mouse problems.
Noosa was founded in 2006, and since then, our rodent-control experts have provided effective results for Charlotte residents. Our experts know which rats and mice are most commonly seen in North and South Carolina—and more importantly, they know how to get rid of them.
We’re proud to provide rodent extermination services for the residents of Mecklenburg County, Anson County, Cabarrus County, Gaston County, Iredell County, Lincoln County, Rowan County, Union County, and surrounding areas. Whether you're in Uptown, Eastland, Belmont, Madison Park, or Steele Creek, we'll be happy to take care of your mouse or rat problem in Charlotte.
✔️ When you contact Noosa, we guarantee a fast response during normal business hours. This ensures that rodent emergencies are quickly taken care of. Our focus is on providing customers with the best rodent control service possible.
✔️ We’ve received numerous positive reviews online from satisfied customers. We consider our customers to be part of our family, and we treat them like we’d like to be treated. When you have a mouse control or rat control problem (or any other kind of pest control problem), our team will spend as much time as you need to answer your questions and address the issues.
✔️ We provide quality training to our technicians, ensuring that they are knowledgeable about the:
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- The latest rodents in our area
- The newest rodent treatment options
- The best application methods
✔️ We use full-sized trucks, packing them with whatever our technicians might need to solve your rodent infestation.
✔️ We approach our rodent treatments in a conservative way. We utilize low-impact rodent-control options whenever possible, including natural non-chemical methods, and we take particular care when treating homes with children and pets.
✔️ Since 2008, we’ve partnered with the EPA as a member of their Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP). This program helps to reduce pesticide usage in order to preserve our natural environment.
Why Professional Extermination Beats DIY Rodent Control
There are a variety of reasons why professional rodent extermination is a better option than DIY methods.
- DIY Methods Often Fail: In many cases, homeowners find that DIY rodent control options like traps, bait stations, and repellents are not as effective as they might hope.
A lot of DIY options are designed to get rid of rodents without also addressing the cause of the infestation. Because of this, after the DIY methods have been used, the rodents just keep coming back. Additionally, since rodents are quite intelligent, they adapt quickly, learning to avoid DIY solutions.
- Health Risks and Safety Concerns: Certain DIY rodent control treatments can pose major health and safety risks. Rat and mouse poison products can be extremely toxic, causing serious health issues for children and pets.
Taking on mice and rats yourself also means coming into repeated contact with them and with their nesting materials, feces, and urine. This increases the likelihood of contracting rodent-borne illnesses, especially if you aren’t properly protected.
Professional rodent exterminators in Charlotte use products that ensure the safety of children and pets. They also know how to avoid rodent-borne illnesses by utilizing proper protection.
- Rodents Multiply Quickly: Rats and mice quickly create more rats and mice, leading to major home infestations. Rats can have up to 20 babies per litter and may give birth to litters up to 15 times every year. Mice have up to 14 babies per litter and may give birth up to 10 times a year.
Because of this, it’s important to effectively address rodent problems before they become overwhelming. Severe infestations are impossible to address with DIY methods, and if you have a severe infestation on your hands, it’s time to call the experts at Noosa.
- Professionals Provide Long-Term Prevention: Not only do Noosa’s rodent-control experts know how to get rid of mice and rats, they also know how to keep them away for good.
Professional rodent-control experts know how to thoroughly examine the home, finding the root causes of a rodent infestation. They can then address the causes effectively, putting a permanent stop to the infestation.
Our experts are equipped with the latest in rodent-control products, which are designed to produce longer-lasting results. Additionally, their knowledge of rodent-control techniques and strategies is unparalleled. DIY options are typically one-size-fits-all, but infestations are best addressed with personalized solutions.
- Time and Cost Efficiency: If you’re treating a rodent infestation, it’s important to do it right. Mistakes can be costly and time-consuming. Instead of wasting time and money on ineffective DIY options, it’s best to choose the experts.
Rodent Prevention Tips
It’s much easier to keep rodents out of your home than to get rid of an infestation. These rodent prevention tips can help keep rats and mice out of your home:
- Store food in sealed containers.
- Trim vegetation near the home.
- Keep crawl spaces and attics dry.
- Seal all entry points.
- Don’t leave pet food out overnight.
Rats and mice seek food, drink, and safe shelter. The more you can do to keep them from getting what they want, the less appealing your home will seem to them.
Outdoors, make sure that garbage cans are tightly lidded and that no scraps of food are lying around. As fruits and vegetables ripen in your garden and on your trees, pick them and bring them indoors. Compost ones that begin to rot. If you feed animals outdoors, don’t leave extra food out there after they’re done eating.
To make it difficult for rodents to build nests outdoors, keep wood piles and lumber at least 18 inches from your home. Clean up tree limbs and other debris, and trim tree branches and shrubs so that they’re four feet or more away from the house.
Because rodents can enter your home through openings as tiny as a quarter, look for openings of that size or larger in your walls. Check around your doors and windows, and look for weather-strip cracks. Seal them up using caulk, plaster, or cement.
If rats and mice get inside your Charlotte, NC, home and multiply, you’ll need to contact the rodent-control experts at Noosa to address the infestation.
Common Types of Rodents
There are two types of rats and two types of mice that are commonly found in North and South Carolina. Different types of mice and rats have different behaviors, and identifying the mouse or rat infesting your home will help your rodent-control expert create the ideal extermination strategy.
Black Rat (Roof Rat)
Black rats are dark in hue, from a dark brown to black, measuring nearly a foot and a half from nose to tail tip.
Black rats are quite adaptable, learning to live in a variety of environments. They are great climbers and often get into homes through the roof. A rat can fall long distances, even as far as 50 feet, without getting hurt, so roof walks aren’t especially risky for them.
Norway Rat (Brown Rat)
Also called street rats or sewer rats, Norway rats are brown in color, and the area beneath their bellies is a lighter shade. They are about the same size as the black rat, with blunt noses.
These rodents have heavy bodies that prevent them from climbing well (although they can do some climbing), so they’re much more likely to enter a home through a lower level. They have the ability to run and swim well.
Deer Mouse
Deer mice are small and agile. They have big back feet, which allow them to easily jump. Their fur has contrasting colors, with fur on top being a shade of reddish brown, anywhere from light to dark. Their bellies, legs, and feet are white.
Although their smaller size (in contrast with rats) can make them seem less threatening, they are carriers of a nasty hantavirus strain.
House Mouse
House mice live in homes and other buildings. They grow to about seven or so inches in length. Their fur is light brown and is a lighter shade on their underbellies.
Rodents and Diseases
Rodents can bring dangerous diseases into your home, putting your family and your pets in danger. Because of this, it’s important to efficiently address rodents by contacting our exterminators.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns of several diseases that can be directly transmitted from rats to humans. These include hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, plague, rat-bite fever, and salmonellosis.
There are also diseases that are indirectly transmitted from rats to humans through flea and tick bites. They include Colorado tick fever, Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and West Nile fever.
Choose Noosa for Your Rodent Removal Services
Struggling with rodents in the Greater Charlotte area? Trust the experts at Noosa Pest Management for safe and effective mice and rat control. Contact us online for help today or call (704) 499-9922 for fast, professional service.
Rodent Control FAQs
Common health risks associated with rodents include hantavirus, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, tularemia, and plague. Several other conditions are also directly or indirectly connected with wild rodents inside people’s homes.
So, if you believe you have a rodent infestation, call a mouse or rat exterminator immediately. The sooner you get the infestation under control, the less worry you’ll have about contracting a dangerous disease in your home.
You might need Noosa’s rodent control services if:
- You see dark, moist, rodent droppings, which eventually become hard pellets.
- There is an unpleasant odor, likely from rodent urine.
- Rodents have gnawed holes, left bite marks or chewed through cardboard, drywall, or other materials while seeking food.
- You discover rodent nests made of organic matter.
- You hear scratching or scampering sounds.
- You observe small rodent pathways through your home.
- Your pet’s behavior has changed, likely due to new smells or rodent movement.
The most effective form of rodent control is focusing on removing food sources, water, and rodent shelters while also bringing in professional exterminators.
Here at Noosa, we incorporate integrated pest management (IPM) with our rodent control techniques. The rat and mouse exterminators at Noosa Pest understand the nuances of IPM and how it balances the pros and cons of rodent control. Our first priority is keeping people safe in their homes; the second is preserving the natural environment.
To get rid of a rodent infestation, contact rodent-control experts immediately. Only the experts know how to quickly, safely, and effectively handle a rat or mouse infestation.
Yes, rats can come back after professional rat extermination services. If a rat’s nest is undisturbed, they will return to it. Even if the nest has been disturbed, rats can still return. Since rats are warm-blooded animals, they will go to great lengths to shelter in the warmth of people’s homes. And even if they’ve migrated to a more desirable location, they are unlikely to abandon the nests they’ve built.
To permanently get rid of mice or other rodents, first call exterminators for professional rodent-control services.
After a professional has exterminated the rats in your home, the key to keeping them out is through prevention:
- Seal cracks and holes larger than a dime or gaps under doors over a quarter-inch wide.
- Store food in airtight containers.
- Keep your home and storage areas clutter-free.
- Dispose of household garbage regularly.
- Replace crumbling mortar and loose weather stripping around the foundation and windows.
- Ensure attics, basements, and crawl spaces are dry and well-ventilated.
- Attach door sweeps and repair damaged screens, pipe leaks, and drain clogs.
When you’re choosing a professional rodent exterminator, you should look for a company that has years of local expertise and provides proven results. They should use low-impact and eco-friendly strategies whenever possible, and they should offer fast response times. Noosa offers all of this and more for Charlotte residents.
It can take time to take care of a rodent infestation. The severity of the rat or mouse infestation determines the total time required to address it. Smaller infestations can take weeks, whereas larger infestations may take months. After your home evaluation, you and your rodent-control expert can discuss the time required to fully take care of the infestation.
Yes! We do offer regular preventative treatments for rodents. These include monthly or quarterly treatment plans. Contact Noosa Pest Management to learn more.