Baltimore’s Rat Rubout team takes 235,000 calls a year, seeking to exterminate the vermin population plaguing neighborhoods.

Those rat-proof bins? Not rat-proof after all.

Nearly 70% of global communities will likely be living in urban areas by 2050, according to the United Nations. Rats will, ...

Pests can cause utter destruction to your yard, and sometimes, you may not even know you have a problem. Here are the sneaky ...

It's always a worry if you've spotted a mouse indoors or a rat in the backyard. And learning how to get rid of mice or how to get rid of rats can be a challenging and often expensive task at the ...

(CBS DETROIT) - Three Michigan cities are ranked among America's 50 most rat-infested cities, according to Orkin's annual Top ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago is keeping a crown it would rather not have. For the 10th year in a row, Chicago was ranked as the rattiest city in America by pest control company Orkin. The Windy City has ...

Nutria – or coypu – can spread tapeworm and tuberculosis while burrowing through flood defenses (Picture: Gerard Soury/The Image Bank RF/Getty Images) Disease ridden rat-like creatures with ...

For example, brown rats typically burrow in the ground, near humans. Human choices about food and trash, Frye said, play a part in this. “It's our behaviors as people that contribute to the ...

But all around their feet − beneath bushes, over subway grates and between trash cans − were traps, barriers and birth-control-infused snacks to fend off rats in the heart of the nation's ...