Just wanted to share this with everyone. Yesterday I was inspecting an electrical panel and…let’s just say that this brings the term “rat’s nest” to a whole new level!
It is what you don’t see in the wall that is the problem, Chewed wires. 
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There is a dead mouse at the bottom of the panel. It also built its own nest out of insulation material.
Very true!
I believe Brian was pointing to the sheet of plastic/visqueen (or vapor barrier) inside the panel…
I found rodents many times, over the years, in electric cabinets. 
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I thought it was bent metal! 
Bees, wasps and mice dead or alive. I always peek behind the panel before I pull it off. Wasps taught me a lesson a long time ago I haven’t forgot.
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Thank you. Good to know that I’m not the only one 
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yikes! Ok, you have me beat
Oh, I was so focused on the mouse and his nest, I didn’t even notice the plastic or bent metal!
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One of them, high bred service equipment panels. Been some time… Part service equipment, part honey manufacturing device. You must remove a left or right bottom knockout, and slightly tilt the panel in the direction of the open knockout manufacturing honey and clean the cabinet seasonally so says the manufacture’s instructions.
Baggies with an unknown substance stored in an electrical panel, possible green corrosion observed on wires, corrosion observed on screw heads etc.
Looks like white rice, maybe the homeowner was trying to control moisture?
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Could be a deliberate interior vapor barrier. Though if so it’s poorly detailed at the panel, and the panel will create holes in the vapor barrier:
Did the little feller ride the lightning or just expire like Roy Batty?
It does look like rice but I can’t assume. The realtors left, the property was vacant and the property was rural and a rental. I swore I heard a car alarm chirp just after I opened the panel and I was half afraid someone was coming to collect whatever it was. It was a little spooky. The rest of the house looked okay and I was debating the wisdom of opening a panel with that amount of corrosion and no one else around in case something went wrong. I tested it first but you never know. I’m used to seeing spider webs, other sorts of bug/rodent debris and paint overspray but this was a first.