Know Your Droppings

Here we have a couple of freshly caught American Cockroaches,   This was under the stairs in a storage area at a restaurant.  (Don't worry, the roaches were safely relocated to a ranch in Westchester.)

One of the good pieces of data we can take away from this picture is to get an idea of what water bug droppings look like.  You could easily confuse them with mouse droppings, couldn't you?

Water bug droppings are typically slightly smaller than mouse droppings and, in my opinion, they are more uniformly round on the edges, whereas (forgive me) mouse droppings often show evidence of having been "pinched off."

So be encouraged.  Just because you found droppings doesn't mean necessarily that you have mice.  You might just have cockroaches.

Ew York City will be dropping your way again tomorrow.