Rat populations can quickly become out of control in large urban areas where access to food and shelter is plentiful. Rats ...

Rat populations are set to increase around the world due to rising temperatures and more people living in dense environments, ...

The damp weather means that rats are looking to get into homes pest control experts say - but there are some cheap ways to ...

“Rats do have a great sense of smell,” Fredericks ... Pest control can be a DIY ordeal (especially when you have so much time on your hands), but there are times when you'll want to call ...

The absurd story begins in November last year when a leaked city council document revealed plans to overhaul refuse collection in order to combat the rising cost of waste disposal. However ...

These plants possess odours or tastes that rats find unpleasant." Rats will stay away from mint, for example, which has a pleasant smell to humans, but not so much to rodents. Mr Bryant ...

An extra month may not sound like much ... neighborhoods and do educational workshops and campaigns to talk to residents about what makes a property less likely to have rats,” Richardson ...

An extra month may not sound like much ... against rats, Richardson and Corradi said. The answer is not more poison or traps, but prevention, the study said. “In New Orleans they make a big effort to ...

Urban rat populations appear to be rising with the mercury. Rats already cost the United States approximately ... which means what resources they do have tend to go toward trying to reduce ...

There have been calls from Birmingham councillors to scrap the pest control charge for rats introduced last year ...

And there’s an economic cost - cities across the globe are ... Byers and Richardson say. And as much as humans love to hate rats, they often create the very conditions that the rodents need ...