Notes from the Green Truck

Excluding disease-harboring rats or mice from your New Jersey home or business can be a complicated process that requires the skill and knowledge of a trained and experienced rodent control expert. Rodents’ narrow skulls and flexible bodies allow them to enter through very small holes and cracks under doors, in foundation walls, up sewer and [...]

When rodent pests invade your New Jersey home or business, they spread life-threatening infectious diseases, expose humans and pets to dangerous parasites, contaminate food supplies and foul food preparation areas with their urine and feces, and damage structures with their incessant gnawing. Every year, rodents destroy one-third of the world’s food supply, do millions of [...]

Although mice and rats are active year-round, spring and fall are when rodents cause the most trouble for New Jersey home and business owners. Their narrow skulls and flexible bodies allow rodents to squirm through small cracks and holes to get inside buildings. A mouse can wriggle through a space no bigger than a dime; [...]

The rat problem in New York City remains unsolved, and it seems to be getting worse all the time. In lower Manhattan, construction works have caused thousands of rats to emerge from their hideouts, and they have settled in nearby public housing areas. These dreaded creatures are making life distressful for many residents, and it [...]

Rats are more than just an unsightly houseguest.  They are known to spread over 70 diseases too.  Back in the Middle Ages they were considered the main source for spreading the Black Plague.  In today’s world, we need to be especially careful of the likes of bubonic plague, typhus, and leptospirosis, to name just a [...]

Vancouver officials are milling over information to see if new regulations need to be put in place for developers of new buildings.  The debate is whether developers should be required to exterminate for rats prior to demolition or prior building any new structures.  Developers are not balking at the idea, but have acknowledged that they [...]