RI, MA EHS Pest Control Blog

I get amazed at how lazy some companies get when it comes to pest control. If there was ever a pest to not take lightly it is the Norway rat. When they are established + committed to structure you BETTER get aggressive and creative! EHS took on this commercial account after the owner was fed up that the previous pest control company could not solve the rat problem. In fact it had gotten worse. He called in EHS and we knew exactly what needed to be done and we clearly explained this to the business owner and he trusted us. He had to, his reputation & livelihood was at stake! We knew he needed structural exclusion, aggressive service frequency, and numerous traps. No way was rodenticide an option as rats had already breached the structure and a dead rat in a wall would smell for weeks! After four weeks we had removed 30 rats and the problem was solved. We then made recommendations on altering the structure to prevent this from happening again. Just another successful elimination and one very happy client! TRUST EHS for pest SOLUTIONS!

Johnny Maiocchi
Service Specialist

Pest Control, RI, Pest Control, MA 

What do you see??? To the untrained eye you see nothing but to me I see something that 99.9% of the population would overlook. It’s a decaying rat carcass in leaf/grass debris. I am on a property doing a termite inspection and I look around the surrounding area and find this dead rat about 25FT from the building.

I investigate further and find several rat burrows nearby and alerted the property manager who was thrilled I took the extra effort to uncover this. As a result we were able to nip this potential situation in the bud and protect our client.

Sherlock Holmes = You must train yourself to observe what others overlook.

Martin Hussey
Service Specialist

Pest Control, RI, Pest Control, MA 

This was way too good not too share! As I have said before…..we see it all! If not for nothing the pest control business is certainly interesting and entertaining! What am I looking at in this picture? We call this one mad man with a hammer. This guy had a rat in his house so he used store bought rat poison and the result is a dead rotting rat carcass somewhere in his house. The bonus is the 2,000 blow flies that are swarming in all rooms of his house. The odor was so bad and offensive that he started ripping out his sheetrock to find it. After turning his basement into a disaster area he never found the dead rat.

EHS was able to come in and solve the rat issue. What we do is once rats have breached the structure we do not use a rodenticide for the very reason this picture depicts. We structurally exclude the rats and use mechanical traps until the problem is eliminated. Just another draw back to “do it yourself” pest control.

Mike “Spike McGoldrick
Service Supervisor

Pest Control, RI, Pest Control, MA