In Somerville, Massachusetts just outside of Boston, everyone has a horror story about the rats. Adaline Lining says they ruined Christmas for her last year. She had received a delivery of Bartlett ...

Hadder is now inviting exterminators to partner with the project and become preferred pest control businesses listed on the website. “Anybody that partners with us will, uh, not use the rodenticides, ...

If the trap’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’. New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth ...

Washington, D.C., is launching a rat birth control program to lower the rodent population in the city. (Carlos Aranguiz, Adobe Stock) BALTIMORE — Washington, D.C., is launching a rat birth control ...

Sounds of scratching, gnawing, rustling or squeaking in your home at night could be signs of a rat infestation. According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), Old World rats breed ...

Rat poisons, or, more formally, rodenticides, remain a go-to for rodent control and can pose a danger to pets. One D.C.-area ...

When pest rats and mice decimate populations of native species, pest control is a no-brainer. But what if baiting rats protects threatened songbirds, while poisoning critically endangered owls? This ...

New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.

Rats don’t just break into your food, gnaw at your stuff, and leave droppings everywhere—they also happen to be effective at spreading viruses to human beings through their droppings, urine, and ...