Thousands in southeast Michigan have joined a movement to stop the use of rat poisons due to the harm they pose to pets and predators. The most common types of rodenticides deployed by pest control ...

New York City is known for its towering skyscrapers and bustling streets, but lurking beneath the glitz and glamour of the city that never sleeps are 3 million resilient rats that have cemented their ...

Eric Adams is currently facing multiple federal counts of bribery and corruption, but the war on rats stops for no man. Last week, just as the mayor’s legal troubles came to a head, the City Council ...

Could birth control be the solution to one of Baltimore’s oldest pest problems? It was one of several options explored this week by a Baltimore City Council committee gathered to discuss the city’s ...

For the last ten years, pest control company Orkin has crowned Chicago the "rattiest" city in America, with plenty of "infrastructure and environment" like alleys that offer rats plenty of hiding ...

Harvard scientists have created an interface that allows humans to move a rat's tail just by thinking about it. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the ...

Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his forehead. The 30-year-old service technician for Rose Pest Control was about ...

They're calling it a birth-control campaign, conjuring images of family planning and contraceptives. Promotional materials show a couple framed in a heart. Except in this case, the couple is two rats.

The only sound is of snow crunching under her boots. Walking down an alleyway parallel to Woodward Avenue, Laura Mikulski spots what she’s looking for and crouches in front of it: A little hole, maybe ...

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 ...

The rats are scampering everywhere in NYC nowadays — and we’re not talking about FBI informants. Since the start of 2022, the Big Apple has seen its worst infestation since 2010 — the first year that ...

Where there is food, there will be rats. Much like it shook most everything else in the world, the COVID pandemic shifted where rats went to seek out their meals. As restaurants and businesses across ...