Why Not?

 Here is a nice active rodent entry point.  You can see the "mouse grease" i.e. sebum on the yellow foam.  The mice climb the cable or the wall and escape through the hole.

 Here is a close up of a hole in a brick wall with more sebum on the cement.

Hard to believe these sort of holes can exist in a Manhattan restaurant dining room, but why not?  Behind every brick wall is a labyrinth of rodent activity.

I'll be doing some serious thinking on rodents over the New Year, and I hope to understand them better, and to come up with new ideas for coexistence, setting boundaries, and inclusiveness.  I'll keep you posted.

Happy New Year from Ew York City.

Southern Discomfort

One of our technicians recently relocated from NYC to the warmer weather of the southern United States, and he sent me this picture of some of the creepy crawlies down there.

Yes, that's a spider.

Yes, it sure looks big.

Like big enough to gouge out an eyeball big.

So winter in NYC suddenly doesn't sound so bad.

Stay strong America.

Ew York City should be back one or two more times this week.

Eating Out For Christmas

Here's where your soda comes from at your favorite restaurant.

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See you next year

You're Growing On Me

"Everybody has one and they usually stink."

So were the wise words to me from an older sage who imparted wisdom to me regarding the human drain.

Not that this is entirely relevant, but man these drains in your restaurants are a given for issues.

Deep, dark issues of the soul.

Sometimes decaying organic matter gets so out of control in a drain that living matter begins to sprout forth like so many pinkas.

Bleach is not the answer, so let's put a stop to that rumor (tap tap) right now!

Just clean like you care.  Even if you don't care.

Ew york city will be back tomorrow I think.

These pictures are from one of our nightcrawlers, Melv.

Farm Fresh

Here's a closeup of one of those grain beetles from the previous post.

This one however is not from that restaurant, but rather was under the bed of a young, handsome man from the mid-west who moved to NYC to fulfill his dream of becoming a interior decorator.

The dream lives!

But, as one would expect, the trek from the farm to the big city involved numerous perils along the way, including bringing some of these little bad boys along on the journey.  This one was found under a pile of burlap in the master bedroom.

Ew York City will be back tomorrow.

High Fiber Diet

Here are a whole bunch of dead, red flour beetles in a restaurant's storage room.

These little guys love infesting grains and flours and other things in your pantry.

The grains in this restaurant were so full of them for so long that there was a huge graveyard of them on the floor from when they would die of old age.  We didn't even spray to kill any of these.

Now you might be wondering if people ever accidentally eat these things in their food.

What do you mean "if"?

Ew york city will be back for hump day.

Stalag 17 Million

Here are some stalactites made of pure grease underneath a deep fryer in a restaurant kitchen.

My stomach doesn't feel so well.

Ew york city will be around tomorrow.

There Be Dragons Here

I realize these are not dragons.

But as far as the DOH is concerned, they may as well be an eight-headed Hydra with elf-powers.

These dirty, wet, filthy, yellowing rags were underneath kitchen appliances, just gathering moisture and food and were providing a perfect breeding sight for flies and cockroaches.

It was gnarly braddah.

Amazing how something so simple as killing a dragon restores peace to the realm, and something so simple as getting rid of these rags got rid of this restaurant's pests.

Try not to blink in the face of danger.

Ew York City should be back tomorrow.

Is it gross?

Every now and then one of my technicians will send me a photograph that makes me say, "what in the gehenna is going on here?"

Here is a nice closeup of the area between two stoves in a restaurant kitchen where grease and slimy matter have been gathering together for some time.

How long exactly?  It's hard to say.

In any case, this is a perfect example of pest conducive conditions right under your nose.

This needs a scrubbing, a steaming, a disinfecting, and a livable wage.

Move it out, clean it up, shut it down.

And receive with simplicity all that happens to you.

Ew York City will be back soon money.

Muckday

Here are a couple alternate views of a drain that I posted a few days back.

It's Monday, so I feel kind of like this drain.

Please clean.

Ew York City will be back on Tuesday.

Let the Sun Shine In

There are some things you can't look away from.

This is not one of them.

Even I don't like looking at this sort of thing.  My brain is actually triggering the smell of it now in my mind so I'm feeling kind ill.

This is not in some fourth world hive of scum and villainy.

This is in the kitchen of a really, really, really nice restaurant in Manhattan, that happens to wonder why they have so many pests showing up.

All their drains look like this.

Drains are not the be all, end all to all pest situations.

We're not talking about whoopsy doopsy.

But drains are a no brainer for any one who cares about sanitation and pest control.

Once the drains are on lock down you have eliminated one major source of doom and gloom in your life.

And that my friends, is a fight worth winning.

Ew york city will fly by again soon.

The Grobe

I never knew what the Grobe was, but I feared it nonetheless.

Ah, the 70s.

Anyway, look at all the nastiness gathering in your kitchen behind this one pipe.

"Filthy Whore!!"

That wasn't me.

I'm not sure who yelled that.

So the plan is to schedule a deep intense cleaning of this area every week at the least so that these sort of problems do not develop and persist.

You may not always be able to prevent the development, but you can always address the persistence.

Feel me?

Ew York City will be back again

The Door Sweeps For Thee

Here are a couple bad situations, back to back, and belly to belly.

If you're going to have door sweeps you've got to make sure:

1) They are attached correctly, tightly, beautifully, etc.

And

2)  They are intact, i.e. not crunched or bent or folded up anywhere, whether it be at the end or in the middle, etc.

Do you check your door sweeps regularly?

Do they sweep correctly?

Do they need replacing?  Oiling?  Lubing?  Refitting?  Customizing?  Detailing?  A tune up?  Diet?

So get down to bring it up a notch, and make sure that ain't no mice getting into your house, restaurant, etc.

Ew York City will be back, return, etc. tomorrow