Both cities are now using the Anticimex SMART boxes, which sense, trap, kill, and track the rats. An electric rat trap is seen along the bike path in Somerville. This week the city distributed 50 ...

“Since COVID, there’s been an explosion of rats here,” Spiro, a Forest Park resident, said. Spiro and Sharon live in the same ...

NEW YORK – New York City's long war against a rising rat population could soon feature a new weapon—a trap that drowns the rodents in a solution with alcohol, reports the New York Post. Brooklyn ...

PARIS — In a key scene from “Ratatouille,” the father of Rémy, a rat who wants to be a chef, shows him a pest-control shop and tells him humans do nasty things to rodents. To eerie background music ...

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has a message for the growing number of rats walking on city sidewalks: “Not only am I the BP, I’m the pied piper.” Unbeknownst to most until now, Adams has ...

Handing over 100 rat traps for forest restoration in the Mid North are Lucy Sizer (left), 14, Takou Bay; DoC community rangers Lizzie Smith and Maddy Powers; Kanwar Gill, 13, Kawakawa; Kiwi Coast Mid ...

A Mobile man was sentenced to three years in prison for involvement in an elaborate check-stealing scheme that included falsifying identification documents and making unlawful deposits, transfers and ...

Scientists have developed a new way to exterminate rats by identifying and synthetically replicating the male brown rat's sex pheromone. The chemical is a powerful attractant for luring female brown ...

Rats, a common pest, are a constant source of worry for many households around the world. Now, researchers have used the animals’ own sex pheromones to trap and get rid of these rodents. The brown rat ...