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08/07/2024

Countless areas in New York failed their last rat inspection.

03/27/2024

Cockroaches are becoming more difficult to eliminate as they develop cross-resistance to insecticides, according to Purdue University research.

02/05/2024

A GIANT rodent has been spotted riding a never-ending escalator in the New York City’s subway. In the viral clip, the rat can be seen agilely jumping up each step of the descending escalator …

02/05/2024

Like a scene straight out of a horror movie, oversized rats are beginning to overrun neighborhoods in Rome and no one seems to know where they're coming from.

02/02/2024

Serious mouse problems in an apartment property need to be addressed by a separate comprehensive plan.

11/18/2023

The little mouse was to light to activate the rat size trap.

10/26/2023

The Big Apple has actually dropped a spot in Orkin’s annual “rattiest” rankings from a year earlier, coming in at number three behind Los Angeles and Chicago.

09/10/2023

08/05/2023

A hometown in New York State moved up the list and is now one of the rattiest cities in all of New York State.

07/27/2023

While a top invasive insect specialist said that this season will be a bad one, he had an encouraging prediction for the borough.

07/24/2023

A new viral TikTok challenge has pest control officials concerned.

05/23/2023

Think NYC has a rat problem? Then you might want to skip this restaurant in California. A rat was spotted sitting on a chandelier at Chinese takeout spot in Clovis, California. The hairy sight prom…

04/07/2023

Rats bop to the beat of Lady Gaga, Queeen and Mozart, just like humans

04/04/2023

The German cockroach evolved to live only in human environments. This roach is very good at adapting to pest control methods — even if it means changing its mating rituals.

03/14/2023

Keeping vermin under control in the nation’s tenth most rat-infested city costs Denver $100,000 per month – and that doesn’t include the airport. That’s according to a contract extension the Finance and Governance Committee of the Denver City Council will vote on March 14. Northern Colorado ...

03/07/2023

I thought having a rat czar would be an easy win for the city. I was wrong.

02/28/2023

A Hudson Valley school confirmed cockroaches were found in some classrooms.

02/22/2023

Frank Meek, BCE, PHE, PCQI, explains the health risks, how to identify and sanitize when it comes to treating for rodents in healthcare facilities.

01/25/2023

NYCHA's 335 developments compose a major front in the mayor's war on rats. But pest complaints at the developments are on the rise.

01/09/2023

Solving the problem of the infestation around the mayor’s Brooklyn property is not necessarily simple, an expert in rodenticide says.

12/13/2022

NEWS Who Is Ernie Schicchi New NYC Rat Czar, His Age, Job And Salary - The SportsGrail

12/07/2022

Exclusion tips for rodents and wildlife.

10/29/2022

A RIFF on what country is really about.

09/29/2022

Ants are tiny in size but not in number. There are about 20 quadrillion ants on the Earth at any given time, a new study estimated. That's 20 thousand trillion individuals.

09/25/2022

If not contained, the spotted lanternfly potentially could drain Pennsylvania's economy of at least $324 million annually and cause the loss of about 2,800 jobs, according to a study from economists in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

09/15/2022

It only takes a year and the right sanitation and harborage conditions for 10 rats to become upwards of 400. Fortunately, integrated pest management (IPM) practices help keep those two critical resources to rodents at a minimum, and thus keep the reproduction rate lower. Source: Bobby Corrigan, Ph.D. 2021. Here’s a shareable graphic to show how quickly the growth can occur.

09/13/2022

The invasive Turkestan cockroach has gone from exotic to commonplace in many parts of the state, taking over in habitats formerly occupied by the oriental cockroach.

08/24/2022

The invasive pest has become widespread on Staten Island.

08/22/2022

Rodents have long taken over the city's sidewalks — now, they're coming for your car wires, and the struggle to stop them will be a rat race.