Archive for the Rodent Category
Posted on July 19, 2010 with No Comments
Yesterday New York 1 reported that an apartment building in the East Village has been infested with rats. There are rats in the windows, halls, and even ceilings. The tenants are not happy at all with the issue but have got very little attention from state and city officials that they have tried to reach out to. They claim the conditions are not sanitary and this can pose as a threat to the tenants. When the news station visited the building there were two dead rats outside the building and one dead rat in the hallway. The rats will even eat through walls. In just one apartment exterminators found 2 dozen dead rats. 
Rats can carry diseases so if you find a rat or rodent in your home, please contact a pest control company immediately. JP McHale is a Westchester Pest Control company. We are licensed in rat extermination and would love to help you with your rat problem! Contact us by phone 800-479-2284, email, live chat, twitter, or facebook.
Posted on July 14, 2010 with No Comments
A few days ago the Alzheimer’s Society published an article about a recent study between walnuts and mice. Scientists conducted an experiment where they fed a group of mice walnuts as part of their diet. After over a year, the scientists compared the health of the mice who ate walnuts and the mice that did not. They found that the mice that ate the walnuts had better learning, memory, emotional regulation and motor coordination skills compared with the mice that did not eat the walnuts. 
Researchers cannot say that this study can be applied to humans just yet, but there could be a chance that the symptoms displayed in the mice can be mimic in humans. JP McHale is a Westchester pest control company that can conduct an inspection for your home or building to check for mice. Simply contact us by phone 800-479-2284, email, live chat, facebook, or twitter.
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Posted on June 23, 2010 with No Comments
Yesterday, one of our techs was called out to a home. 
He was doing a routine check on a customers home and started to check the cabinets for any pests. He got around to the counter where the the home owners kept the bread and coffee on, and in that cabinet you won’t believe what he found. In the very back corner of the cabinet, there was a family of mice! The tech saw about 6 baby mice and two adults. Mice can get into the tiniest of areas, so make sure you seal the smallest of holes! JP McHale PM knows exactly where to check for pests, unlike some homeowners that might miss an area. If you have a mice problem feel free to contact us. JP McHale is a pest management company in Westchester, New York. We would love to help you with your pest problem! Contact us by phone 800-479-2284, email, live chat, twitter, or facebook.
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Posted on June 21, 2010 with No Comments
What better way to recycle tennis balls then to turn them into a home! Over in the UK, conservationists are cutting holes in old tennis balls used in the Wimbledon 
Tennis tournament with the hope of provide shelters to mice. In the recent years, mice population in the UK has dropped and is now starting to rise up again. The tennis balls provide a rather good shelter for the mice, and once they are settled they will breed 4 to 6 mice at a time. Over in the US mice have been on the rise in the past years, and more cases of mice invading homes have been seen. If you have experienced a mouse problem, feel free to contact us by phone 800-479-2284, email, live chat, facebook, or twitter. JP McHale is one of the the leading Pest Control companies in Westchester.
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Posted on June 16, 2010 with No Comments
In today’s paper, an article on the front page of the NY Post talks about the on-going issue of rats living in the subways. Previously, the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) treated the pest problem by setting up bait stations with position inside with hopes of killing the rats. 
The rats still came back. The city is now going to approach this problem the scientific way. Researchers are going to study 29 factors in the subway including holes is the walls, where the trash is located, and where the poison baits is stationed. A Health Department member says that rats live in cinder block walls, like people in an apartment building, and up to 8 to 12 in one block! Rats cause many problems to people in the subway and the way the trains run. Rats are known to chew electrical lines, leave their droppings everywhere, and even scare some people to the extent of people jumping onto the tracks! Wherever rats can find food and water, they will stay. Rats reproduce heavily so if a rat finds a comfortable environment, there will be many more to come. The city hopes to think up a new plan to exterminate the rats in the next year or two. If you have a rat problem, contact us by phone 800-479-2284, email, live chat, twitter, or facebook.
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Posted on June 14, 2010 with No Comments
Over the weekend one of our techs was called out for a rat inspection. 
He thought it would be like any other job and could solve the problem easily. Little did he know, when he found the rat after looking for a while he realized it was a much bigger problem than he expected. The rat was the size of a cat! He said he had never seen anything like it before because the rat was huge! If you have any interesting pests stories we’d love to hear form you!
Posted on June 11, 2010 with No Comments
Yesterday, one of our tech was called out to check on a customers mouse problem. In some cases, we will treat the problem by setting up ketch-alls (mouse traps). The tech was inspecting the catch-all that was sent up between a wall and discovered a mouse with her five, just born pups sheltered in the wall. If you set up mouse trap at home they might not be 100% effective. At JP McHale we use different techniques to treat mouse issues. Feel free to contact us with any questions at 800-479-2248.
Posted on June 8, 2010 with No Comments
Yesterday, one of our techs were called in to treat a rat problem a customer had. Our customer was waring flip flops, walking around when all of the sudden a rat came sprinting by. Unaware of what was happening, the customer accidentally steps on the rats tail. The rat then immediately bit him! When ever you are dealing with a rodent or even pests, make sure you are protected and wear the proper gear so you do not get bitten or harmed.
Posted on June 7, 2010 with No Comments
Stories form the Field is a new segment we are going to implement into our blog that tells our followers the best story that our technicians experienced each day. Today’s story centers on a tech that went to a house today to treat a dead animal smell that a customer had. He looked all around the house and couldn’t seem to find the smell, but the smell kept lingering. He decided to look in the aluminum chimney. When he opened it, he saw a squirrel sitting there. He offered to remove the squirrel safely (since we do not cover wildlife). The tech went to grab it and all of the sudden the squirrel dashes down the back of his tucked in shirt. The squirrel was hot from being in the chimney so the tech walked out of the house with a burn and a squirrel between his skin and shirt, well done! If you have any funny or entertaining stories feel free to share!
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Posted on June 7, 2010 with No Comments
The Dallas Morning News published an article over the weekend about how all kinds of insects are reported to increase in numbers throughout the state. This year, in particularly, there is expected, and has already been, a rise in ants, termites, snakes, mosquitoes, and bed bugs due to the warm and wet seasons. Pest control companies have received almost double the amount of calls in the last few months. Instead of seeing a couple of insects flying around residents are seeing swarms of them. 
These insects are more than just as nuisance to humans. Termites are known to cause 2.5 billion dollars of damage to homes, and add that to the amount of money carpenter ants and bees tally, that’s a lot of money! Luckily in this season there has not been a West Nile case yet, but there are many more mosquitoes than past seasons. The health department in Dallas recently set up a mosquito trap that they hoped would capture a few hundred mosquitoes, which ended up catching a thousand. Texas is not the only state that has a bad bug problem so if you have any problems with pests feel free to contact us by phone 800-479-2284, email, facebook, live chat, or twitter.
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Tags: Bed Bugs, Bees, Carpenter Ants, snakes, Termites, West Nile Virus
Category: Bed Bugs, Bed Bugs, Carpenter Ants, Carpenter Bees, Diseases, Flying Insects, Insects, Mosquitoes, Rodent, Summer Pests, Termites, Termites
Rats can carry diseases so if you find a rat or rodent in your home, please contact a pest control company immediately. JP McHale is a Westchester Pest Control company. We are licensed in rat extermination and would love to help you with your rat problem! Contact us by phone 800-479-2284, email, live chat, twitter, or facebook.
