My guess is that milk chocolate is sweeter.
Good bait for roof rats.
When it is felt peanut butter is also very sweet so it suits the taste of rats.
Nontoxic baits or attractants are intended to attract rats to a trap.
And it s also considered as one of the best rat bait for trap.
Pieces of fruit and bacon are particularly effective in drawing roof rats toward traps.
If you are getting rid of black rats coming in from trees and off the roof peanut butter is a good bait.
What you ll want to look for are any signs that the rats are present including droppings tracks gnaw marks burrows runways and rodent sounds.
The 4 lbs of lures come into a plastic bucket which even useable directly to feed rats.
For some reason which i have yet to discover milk chocolate works better than its darker counterpart.
Rats are shy and avoid new things.
Chocolate is an awesome option for rat trap bait because it is sweet and sticky.
They will avoid traps unless there is something very attractive on the trap.
Rats also like foods that have natural aromas such as nuts shrimp stinky cheese pieces of chocolate bars and even beer.
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While peanut butter is a popular choice you can also use whole nuts bacon berries gumdrops or dried fruit.
Either species likes peanut butter and dried fruit.
Our meat scraps won t lure them but peanut butter nuts or dried fruit certainly do.
The tomcat all weather bait chunx is the is block bait that is made for killing all sizes and types of rats mice rodents.
Roof rats may be attracted to simple food scraps.
Generally speaking roof rats will prefer foods that are plant based while norway rats will prefer items with a lot of sugar protein and fat.
Speaking of catering for the sweet toothed rats chocolate is one of the best rat bait options.
Peanut butter works great for snap trap electric rat trap and live rat trap.
Things that matter more than bait.
Peanut butter brings out a sweet aroma combined with the smell of peanuts.
When baiting overhead use a pvc pipe or other tamper resistant bait station to prevent baits from falling to the ground where children or animals may have access to them.
Good baits for these rats include bits of bacon or chocolate dried fruit peanut butter or soft candy.
Roof rats may sometimes rest in the tops of trees or buildings thus the name roof rat traveling to the ground at night for food.
By contrast roof rats often are mostly vegetarian.