Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Maggot?

Here's some junk I found under the bar of a really nice restaurant that I ate at not too long ago.

They had fruit flies.

Now they don't.

They also don't have the junk.

Ew York City, I know it's been hit or miss, but keep the faith George Michael.

Moment of Silence

Many times this is the position a rat takes when a snap trap gets it.

The head is hidden under the trap, almost with a sense of dignity, like covering a body with a sheet or flag.

Notice how the water bug shows up to check out the carcass near the rat's tail.

Ew York City will be back next week.

Today's picture is from Charles.

The World Within You is Waiting Without You

Mosquitoes breed anywhere there is standing water.

This seemingly insignificant indentation in the sidewalk on 5th Avenue in Manhattan has been filled with dirty stagnant water for several days.

Mosquitoes will find this and begin to lay eggs, which will hatch into larvae and grow into adult mosquitoes.  The adults will then start to feed on the blood of human beings and start the process of procreation all over again.

The largest organ of the human body is the skin, which unfortunately is irritated when a mosquito feeds on it.  This irritation leads to the human scratching the area where the feeding took place.  Unfortunately, the mosquito who fed on the human also defecated on the human, and when the human scratches that area the mosquito's fecal matter enters the incision where the feeding took place.  This leads to various diseases, such as those associated with the Zika virus, infecting the human.

The stagnant water above covers an areas that is 5 inches by 5 inches.  That is enough of a breeding site to produce hundreds if not thousands of mosquitoes.

It's going to be a long summer.

Ew York City will be back sometime soon.

Come My Precious

In the courtyard behind this Park Avenue apartment building is a wall that houses some of NYC's most powerful residents.

You can see their front door, and you can see the evidence they leave behind on their travels in and out.

As they tunneled out the wall, the dust gathered below in a heap, and as they run in and out they leave behind their "rub marks."

It is taking us a while to evict these rats.  There are at least twenty of them living in here, with numerous entrances, back doors, escape hatches, etc.  And the bait we are using doesn't seem to interest them so much yet.  I'm sure they have numerous reliable food sources elsewhere.

But like nature itself, I am a patient man.  I will wait them out.  I will sit and watch, and wait, and wait, until one by one they fall into my hands.  I don't care how long it takes.  I'll be waiting.

My clients are not so patient, so I keep having to show them pictures of dead teddy bears and stuffed animals that I doctor up to make it look like a snuff film.  Fortunately, like the rats, the clients have poor eyesight.  But how does their sense of smell compare?

Also, the newsstand on my block raised the price of candy to $1.25.  But the newsstand across the street still sells candy at $1.00.  So what would you do if you were me?

Ew york city will try to get back here tomorrow, but it's kind of tough, you know?

Will You?

Darkness falls over the land.

Creatures of the night begin to evolve.

All has gotten out of hand.

Problems now to big to solve..



Keep it clean out there.

Ew York City will be back next week.

(Today's words borrowed from Shakespeare's 95th Sonnet.)

Double Double Toil and Trouble

My technician Charles sent me this interesting picture.

It almost looks like a scene out of Law and Order.

Pest Victims Unit.

There are two mouse traps in this picture.

Obviously, there is the good old snap trap, made of wood, metal, and plastic.

And then there is the repeat catch box trap.

The mice were so active in this particular restaurant that we were catching them in the silver box and on the snap traps.

So a snap trap was placed on the box trap, and, well, "snap."

That's a nice looking mouse.

Thanks.  I just had it installed.

Man, look at the tail on that thing.

Ew york city, making dreams come true, one dream at a time.

(Tomorrow's episode might make more sense than today's.)

Catching Some

This restaurant was seeing some serious mouse activity in the kitchen, and one quick look under the ovens was all I needed to see that there was some serious penetration going on, and that major exclusion was needed.

In the above picture, you can see the entry point where the floor meets the wall, and you can see the blue goodies that I put in there for the mice to eat.

Here's another view.  The problem that I had was that I really wanted to use cement to close it up, but I didn't have any one me.  So I ended up having to go back to the office to grab some.

But I didn't want to just leave the defenses down, so before I left to go get the cement I set out a glue board to act as a first line of defense in case any bad boys decided to sneak out while I was gone.

Sure enough, I came back and looked in the same spot, and there was Mr. Cutie stuck on my glue board.  My instincts paid off, and I outsmarted nature, THIS time.  I'm amazing.

But don't worry Mr. and Mrs. America, your mousy friend is ok.  I simply took a little Extra Virgin Olive Oil and poured it on the mouse, and he slid right off the glue board in perfect health.  Then I sauteed him with a little garlic and onion, and plated him nicely alongside some farfalle with asparagus.

One thing about this job: you eat good, brother.

Ew york city will blah blah blah you know the deal