It’s not uncommon to see them lurking in city alleyways or scurrying between dumpsters, but it turns out rats like suburban living, too. Tina Martin reports.
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Rats Are Pollinators, Too
Their study suggests that as rats eat the feijoa plant’s petals, they also spread its pollen ... of a petal-rewarding plant in the urban area. Ecology 03 June 2022. Doi: 10.1002/ecy.
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Coyotes are here to stay in North American cities – here’s how to appreciate them from a distance
Typically coyotes avoid the urban cores, but in Chicago they inhabit the downtown area ... as rabbits, rats and mice. Since coyotes are omnivores, they also eat plant material and spread seeds ...
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Fighting rats involves high-tech traps and carbon monoxide poisoning for some cities
Cities across the northeast are seeing a spike in complaints about rats. With high-tech traps and carbon monoxide gas, the Boston area is taking on its growing problem.
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COVID-19 culture testing suggests some people may remain infectious after five days
In their paper published in JAMA Network Open, the researchers describe how they tested infected patients using both rapid antigen tests (RATs ... 40 people in the Boston area who were known ...
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Rat Concerns Rise in Boston: ‘We Need to Redouble Our Efforts'
Boston leaders said this week the city needs to “redouble” its efforts in controlling a rat problem that is apparently getting worse, the Boston Herald reported. “If you don’t solve pest control ...
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Rats are proliferating again in Boston, city councilors say. Do you have a rat problem? Take our poll.
They smell a rat. Or several thousand. In this case, they’re an assortment of Boston City Councilors, and the rats are our old friends rattus norvegicus, the Norwegian rat, which is coming out in ...
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Rats proliferating again in Boston, city councilors say
"We need to redouble our efforts," said City Council President Ed Flynn. "If you don’t solve pest control issues, you know what’s going to happen — people are going to leave the city." ...
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Your questions about monkeypox, answered
Smallpox vaccines, which can also work against monkeypox, will be accessible to known contacts of cases and to others who have attended events or venues where monkeypox was known to spread.
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Ridding of rats to be topic of community forum in North Attleboro
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Rats! This problem just won't go away in Attleboro, beyond
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Tales from the Press Box: Looking Back at the Rat Craze
"Could you tell the story about the rat one more time?" Mellanby looked at me, standing a few feet away, and a mischievous smile spread over ... could work in an area that had regarded ice first ...