These animals are well adapted to living in very close association with humans, sharing their food and shelter. Throughout history, rats and mice have been responsible for enormous losses of food and, owing to their ability to transmit diseases to humans by a variety of means, enormous losses of human life.
Rodents consume 10 per cent of their body weight each day. with the average rat eating about 30 grams a day. An infestation of only 5 rats can produce approximately 73,000 droppings and 27 litres of urine a year.
Rodents are destructive, causing problems such as electrical fired from gnawing on wiring & contamination of all food related products.
The rodents that are of great concern not just in Australia but in many countries, are: