[butlerism]

Immediate fix, sprinkle moth balls or moth dust around the area they a frequenting. they will be gone in 2 days. The ammonium in moth products will overload their senses and bye bye. Harmless solution and it gets them away and stops them "frequenting".

Also look into having the lower two feet of your lanai screening covered with aluminum flashing.
My lanai is fully screened, also have sliding windows, makes it into another room.
PM me I will send you photos

Also, no food and no water, you will never see one. Biggest question is what are the searching for?
Find all sources of food and water, eliminate them.

Now for the Palm. Your homeowners insurance (I have State Farm) does not cover damage to your house as a result of, perhaps a palm falling on your house (even your neighbors palm falling on your house, they are grass plants). Talk to your neighbor, chop down the palm. Better for your house, their house, all houses.
Side note, the roaches are in the palms too. I chopped my palm, Have not seen a bug in a year. The birds had a field day eating the roaches for the two days after the palm came down.
Trees and Palms are nice..... Over there.

I love large open grassy front yards, none of the over the top flower beds. Sure they are pretty. But stop for a second. Look around, you live in paradise. Ditch the yard maintenance.

[IndianaJones]

Originally Posted by Deputydan

One of our neighbors Palm Rats got into my garage and chewed my air conditioning wires on my Toyota Highlander. Total cost ($2700.00) They had to completely remove the dashboard and other parts to fix it! Ins. paid $2000.00 I paid $700.00 out of pocket.

I see people leaving their garages doors open to cool things down. BEWARE!

Yep - same thing happened to me, we park one car outdoors - I think mine was squirrels (judging from all the fur when one of them was apparently in the fan when I remote started the car), chewing through the wiring harness; check engine light came on and a bunch of other lights - cost a small fortune to get it re-wired (they wrapped it good this time, plastic tape). Those critters can do some damage!

[MSGirl]

Originally Posted by Becca9800

I do apologize for commenting bc I can't help you with the screening repair issue however, I'm kinda horrified by the issue.

I can live w the fact that palm rats are in TV but is palm rats chewing through screens a thing in TV too? Hard to imagine they'd just chew through screening wo reason. Tell me there was something they wanted that was stored on your lanai! And are they "your neighbor's rats" bc you don't have palm trees and the neighbor does? I stupidly lured rats into my yard by feeding the birds. Only took those vermin a couple weeks to find the feeders behind a concrete wall. I removed those feeders immediately. Couple days later I saw THE biggest black snake slither through my yard. Holy cow! Rats and snakes. IN my yard! I gather the snake was there bc the rats were there (dinner) but I'm just not accustomed to rats and snakes in my yard. Kinda horrified, won't lie.

The rats are from my neighbors yard. I don’t have palms in my yard for that very reason. I don’t have a clue what they were looking for on my lanai except for an occasional gecko. I have no other food for them.

[Mohawksin]

Originally Posted by MSGirl

The rats are from my neighbors yard. I don’t have palms in my yard for that very reason. I don’t have a clue what they were looking for on my lanai except for an occasional gecko. I have no other food for them.

In our case the palm rats chewed through the non-metal mesh we call screen down here to get into the grease trap area of the grill.

[BAT777]

Spray Peppermint oil on the car wires..Squirrels will not go near it.

[Luckydog]

Originally Posted by MSGirl

Any recs for someone to repair/replace lanai screen palm rats from my neighbor’s yard is eating through?

Zsolt Simon - (Simon's Screening, LLC.)

[SERENITY52]

Originally Posted by Becca9800

I do apologize for commenting bc I can't help you with the screening repair issue however, I'm kinda horrified by the issue.

I can live w the fact that palm rats are in TV but is palm rats chewing through screens a thing in TV too? Hard to imagine they'd just chew through screening wo reason. Tell me there was something they wanted that was stored on your lanai! And are they "your neighbor's rats" bc you don't have palm trees and the neighbor does? I stupidly lured rats into my yard by feeding the birds. Only took those vermin a couple weeks to find the feeders behind a concrete wall. I removed those feeders immediately. Couple days later I saw THE biggest black snake slither through my yard. Holy cow! Rats and snakes. IN my yard! I gather the snake was there bc the rats were there (dinner) but I'm just not accustomed to rats and snakes in my yard. Kinda horrified, won't lie.

Black Racer snakes kill poisonous snakes.

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by BAT777

Spray Peppermint oil on the car wires..Squirrels will not go near it.

Horses love peppermint!

[Bellavita]

Originally Posted by MSGirl

Any recs for someone to repair/replace lanai screen palm rats from my neighbor’s yard is eating through?

You better make sure they aren’t living in there and check the attic are you feeding the birds if so you need to set out rat poison in a rat box they are everywhere in TV

[DonnieandRita]

Palm rats costed us as well. They visited our central air unit and ate the wiring. Our neighbor has 4 bird feeders. The house just sold, however the empty feeders remain. I’m looking forward to talking with our new neighbor who has yet to move in. I love birds too, but no bird feeders, please?!

[Haole boy]

I found where one of the buggers had chewed through the OSB under the vinyl siding and gotten into the house. After I cleaned up the sheathing chips, poop and insulation scraps I stuffed the gap with #3 steel wool. Set out a couple Victors but it wouldn't go for them. After a few days we found it croaked in one of the bedrooms. I didn't perform an autopsy but judging from its lack of interest in cheese and peanut butter, I would guess that it tried to leave the same way it came in and got a gut full of #3 and lost its appetite.

[DLJ1657]

Have Shane the Screen Guy take care of your screen and ask your pest control company to put a trap near the screen. Make sure there’s no food, pet food, bird seed, etc. on the lanai that can attract them. Shane’s # 352-209-3672

[Villages Kahuna]

They’ve been driven from their normal habitat by the heavy rains. When the seasonal daily rains stop, they’ll return to their normal “home”. Until then you’ll have to call a pest control company. We used Massey. The placed rat traps inside and poison bait outside. The traps caught a rat each night for about a week. A call to Massey and they’d come out, remove the dead rat, and reset the trap.

We used Massey for a complete set of their services so there was no extra charge for the “rat service”.

[Loriana]

Originally Posted by Deputydan

One of our neighbors Palm Rats got into my garage and chewed my air conditioning wires on my Toyota Highlander. Total cost ($2700.00) They had to completely remove the dashboard and other parts to fix it! Ins. paid $2000.00 I paid $700.00 out of pocket.

I see people leaving their garages doors open to cool things down. BEWARE!

We have a house in Mexico and it’s common knowledge that rats ( not squirrels) crawl under the car hood to eat electrical wiring in parked vehicles. We leave rat poison under the hood now before we leave for the season after we had damage. These rats are not palm rats either, so all rats enjoy the coating on the wiring.

[Rose Ann Vinci Igoe]

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