The frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine have become infested with rats and mice, reportedly spreading disease that causes soldiers to vomit and bleed from their eyes, crippling combat capability and recreating the gruesome conditions that plagued troops in the trench warfare of World War I. A Ukrainian servicewoman, who goes by the call-sign “Kira,” […]
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USA’s most pest-infested cities ranked
Washington, D.C., has been ranked as the third-most pest-infested city in America based on the population of both cockroaches and rats. The nation’s capital has an average of 348.6 rat and 228.5 cockroach sightings per year, according to U.S. census data from 2021. This makes the combined sighting rate 83.7 per 100,000 residents, according to […]
1,000 Feral Cats Released To Help Chicago’s Rat Problem
A Chicago animal shelter has reportedly deployed more than 1,000 feral cats onto the streets in an effort to fight the city’s rat problem. The Windy City topped pest control company Orkin’s 2020 Top 50 Rattiest Cities List for the sixth time last year. Tree House Humane Society’s Community Cats Program Manager Sarah Liss told […]