These enticingly flavored bait blocks are placed outside of buildings, in small black boxes that only rats and mice can enter. But the poison remains in the rodents’ bodies, threatening larger ...

Tragedy struck the family in the form of rat poison on November 13. A pest control representative sprinkled the chemical powder in the apartment as their services were sought to tackle the menace ...

Wildlife advocates are sounding the alarm once again about rodenticide, poison used to control rat populations, after sick foxes were found at a mall in Leominster, Massachusetts. Members of the ...

Despite a 2014 ban on consumer sales, the super-toxic rodenticides continued to be heavily used by commercial operators ... “Anticoagulants kill the very wildlife that help us control rats and mice.

Warfarin is the active ingredient in rat poison. Random mutations in the genomes of rats mean that some rats in a population have a natural resistance to warfarin. This causes variation in the rat ...