Possums On Roof At Night

The possum is a nocturnal animal.

Possums on roof at night.

A possum usually adopts a routine of leaving the roof space at the same time every night. Get a live holding trap from a big box home improvement store or from an online retailer. If you have possums in your crawlspaces such as your roof or under your house you may need to physically remove them. Possums in roofs they may be one of australia s beloved native marsupials and pretty cute on top but possums can be trouble once they ve moved into your place and are keeping you awake at night.

Live holding traps capture possums without hurting or killing them. Brushtail possums brushtail possums are commonly seen in urban areas and heard scampering over the roof at night. Possums are generally regarded as pests when folks find them lurking in their yard or near their homes in the middle of the night. New south wales victoria canberra tasmania the south east corner of south australia in central australia including southern northern territory and along the south west coast of western australia.

They are preferable to quick kill traps. Have those noises in roof spaces become loud screeches or perhaps even grunts growls and hisses. In fact one study of possums in urban tasmania found that 87 of their visits to dens were associated with buildings mostly older houses while 45 of den visits were to roof cavities. Can you smell something unsavoury.

It will sleep during the day and then venture outside at night. Not sure if you re talking about inside or outside your roof but inside your roof possums mostly run around at dawn dusk maybe a couple of other times during the night more on rainy nights if they don t want to go out when doing so they sound like an elephant herd of elephants. If you catch a possum you must release it within 24 hours and it must be at night. At sunset release the possum no more than 50 m from where it was caught.

Remove the trap from the roof put it in an area of your house that is quiet and cool and cover it with an old towel or blanket to keep the light out. Possums will only be on your roof regularly for three reasons they are living in your roof they are living on your roof or they are using your roof to get from a to b. During the day make sure you block all access points to the roof or the possum will return. If they re hungry or if they re running from predators they may be out during the daytime.