I noticed a rat outside my ground floor apartment taking birdseed into his burrow by my window well. I set two sticky traps by the hole and watched his behavior for two days without catching him. I then put peanut butter in the center of the sticky traps. I checked the traps tonight and the
VIEW MOREI know you’re expecting to read that this is an urban myth, that it doesn’t happen. Rats don’t swim through sewer lines and end up in toilets. Unfortunately, it can happen, and it does happen…but fortunately it’s a rare occurrence. When people do find a rat in their toilet bowl, they assume that it fell
VIEW MOREDead Rat Removal Katlyn Graham: Once you do get that rat, what is the process for dead rat removal in Massachusetts and New Hampshire? Tim Chace: That’s a good question. The label specifies that they would like you to come back and remove any dead rodents if possible. There’s the rub. Oftentimes it’s not possible
VIEW MOREKatlyn Graham: Hello, I’m Katlyn Graham here with Tim Chace, a pest control technician and entomologist with Colonial Pest. Welcome, Tim. Tim Chace: Hi, Katlyn. Katlyn: How are you? Tim: I’m doing great today. Katlyn: Oh, good! Today we’re discussing tips on rat removal in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Tim, when you are picking a
VIEW MOREQuestion I manage an apartment property in a Boston suburb. We recently added a brand new building to the complex and we just discovered that the building has rats inside! We think there are at least six rats. We’ve never had rats in any of the other buildings and haven’t even seen any on the
VIEW MOREWhen it comes to controlling rats, those of us in the pest control industry know that we have our work cut out for us. Brown (Norway) rats have senses that are more highly developed than ours which occasionally allows them to outwit our pest control efforts. A brown rat’s senses of smell, vision, kinesthetic sense,
VIEW MOREQuestion My husband found some good-sized holes in our yard, mostly going under our shed. I’m worried that they’re rat holes. What do rat burrows look like? Is there any way to tell if it’s rats? Answer The first question is, do you have reason to think that you might have rats? If you’ve had
VIEW MOREQuestion: I’m the head of maintenance for a small office building. Much to my horror, two of our office workers have reported seeing rats, one in the compactor room and one in the break room upstairs. Our pest control contractor will be treating for rats but I need to know where and how they got
VIEW MOREQ. In the last two weeks, we have seen two rats in the legal offices where I work! The rumor is that they’ve been seen elsewhere in the building, too. This is a ten-story office building that is not in the best part of town, but I can’t believe we have rats inside. How do we even begin to get rid of them?
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