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Please stop doing your own pest control, unless you know what you're doing.

Poor tree.

Ew York City will be back soon.

Battle of the Giants

Here's a buprestid beetle.

People in a very nice NoMad neighborhood restaurant started seeing these crawling around the dining room.  And this was in the middle of winter no less.

How can this be happening?  Is it a sign of the end of the world?  Should we be preparing for the zombie apocalypse?  Are they ever going to make Butterfinger BB's again?

No need to worry.  These little beetles actually sit dormant in the woody parts of plants in a larval stage, and then, whenever they feel like it, they pop out and starting doing their little beetle dance.

I don't want to nag everybody, but if you're going to bring nature into your restaurant (plants, flowers, Anthony Kiedis, etc.), then don't be surprised if nature is in your restaurant (beetles, flies, Les Claypool, etc.).

Ew york city will be around.

Ruggy Road (Buggy Road)

Here are some not so clear pictures of a nice carpet beetle infestation on the Upper East Side.

The resident had a lot of clutter sitting on this rug for a long time.  The beetles were able to live there nicely for many years.

All they wanted was their rug back.  I assure you.

Ew york city will be in and out this week.  In and out.

Steel your drink

The ice cube bin at the restaurant.

Under the seam of stainless steel is this collection of something nasty.

It's just what the flies needed.

Next stop: your wine.

Ew York City will be back tomorrow.  Rough Monday.

Max Problem

I don't know why I can't rotate this image 90 degrees to the left, but maybe you can turn your computer monitor on its side for a minute before you go on and read the rest of this.

Okay, thank you.

This was in a nice beauty boutique in an upcoming neighborhood in Manhattan, but the rats weren't really feeling the whole gentrification thing.

The light that you see in the picture was above the makeup displays in the boutique.  All sorts of eye shadow, lip gloss, foundation, and... I can't think of any other types of makeup, but you get the idea.

And on the top of the displays (where the light is) these big, beautiful rats would run back and forth during hours of operation.

That can be a little distracting to people looking for the right color lips.

This was actually a really tough job.  We had to do a lot of baiting, a lot of exclusion, and a lot of trapping, and it took a good long while to get the rats under control.

I haven't been there in a while, but I was thinking about frosting my bangs, so maybe I'll go.

Ew York City will probably be back a couple more times this week.

The Unknown

Sometimes I like not knowing.

Sometimes I like not knowing what it is that I've found under the kitchen appliances of a restaurant.

What is this?  What was this?

I don't know.

All I know for sure is that it was attracting fruit flies.

I hope someday I get to have an intelligible conversation with a fruit fly.

I want to find out their thoughts on so many things.

Like what did they think about the Seinfeld finale?

And can I borrow ten bucks, just until payday?

But maybe it's better not knowing what they would say.

Ew York City will be back tomorrow.

Layers and Layers and Layers

Here's an action shot.  We need more action in 2016.

In one of the "swankiest" restaurants in all of NYC our service manager Lester is pulling back some tiling on the floor and finding a lot of moisture and a whole lot of fly larvae.

One of the ice machines is right there, and when a few cubes would drop to the floor and melt, the liquid H2O would seep underneath the tiling and stay stagnant.  That's all the flies needed to get busy breeding.

Be careful, you might not like what you see.

I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2016.

Ew York City will be back soon.