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 ...

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.

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 ...

A recent report finds that, despite legislation limiting such chemicals, dozens of species are still being poisoned. And we ...

How's this as a way to get rid of rats? Birth control. Arizona-based SenesTech — through its ContraPest product — has figured out a way to make male and female rats infertile for months, driving down ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tips include flushing rat, squirt soap into toilet or if the rat is too large close toilet lid and call pest control ...

Heavy rains have prompted public health officials in Washington to warn residents about toilet rats, a rare plumbing ...