Hillingdon Pest Control News:
| Rats in Hillingdon by paulg on 02/05/2012 |
| Could the number of rats in Hillingdon start to fall because of the recent drought. With the so called lack of rain over the last year months, apart from April, bringing in hosepipe bans for many counties across the country, this could have an effect on the population of the rats. Like all mammals rats need water to survive. With less than average rainfall filling up the reservoirs and the ground drying up faster than before, there is less water for everyone including rats. But will this lack of rain really affect the rats here in Hillingdon, probably not. Rats are a very versatile mammal that will find water and food anywhere. Whether it is from reservoirs, rivers, streams or the sewers, there is water for rats everywhere. Then of course there are the burst water pipes everywhere. Rats will survive a drought despite what you might read in papers or hear on the news. The only way to exterminate and get rid of problem pests like rats is good old fashioned human detection and eradication. Even this though will only help to keep the numbers down. Rats have been around for thousands of years, in one form or another and no matter how much we try and get rid of them, they will find a way of evolving their ways to live around ours. No matter how clean we keep our streets and homes, there will always be food for them. Putting out our rubbish for the bin men the night before collection because they collect in the early hours of the morning, is a food supply for them to scavenge through. Although rats are primarily a nocturnal pest the food waste that is put out by any food establishment during the day is another source of survival. This and all the council cutbacks during the recession mean fewer rubbish collections and fewer street cleaners in many towns like Hillingdon. |