Somerville is using traps to zap the rodents with a jolt of electricity. Boston is gassing underground burrows. And cities like Newton are feeding rats birth control.
Mike Doucette, of Modern Pest Services, pulls out a SMART box electronic rat trap set up along the bike path outside of Davis Square in Somerville to check its contents.
"I’d say it’s a juvenile," said Michael Collins, of Modern Pest Services, as he slid the rodent into a garbage bag. "It's very convenient and successful so far," Collins said."Seeing the catches come in — it's something you look forward to waking up to.", for the bubonic plague that swept Europe during the Middle Ages. The brown rat, or Norway rat, likely came to the Americas as a stowaway aboard ships in the 1700s. And it quickly made itself at home in cities.A video produced by the U.S. government in 1950 called the brown rat a"killer.
"It makes sense that with the closure of restaurants, rats are going to need new places to feed," he said.When restaurants reopened, some rats migrated back to their old haunts, Parsons explained. But others likely remained in their new territories, surviving off household trash and pet waste.In Boston, city crews are trying to exterminate the pests by filling their dens with carbon monoxide.
Other workers snaked a hose down into a rat's den near the visitor's center. As the white smoke seeped out of nearby holes, the crew tried to seal off any potential escape routes with dirt.He said only one"squirter" escaped the burrow that morning."So it wasn't that bad."than other forms of extermination, especially poison.
Somerville's self-described"rat czar" agrees it's hard to eliminate every rat, especially just with traps.
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