Tag: pests
The pest professor: Meet Dan Suiter, UGA’s Orkin Professor of Urban Entomology
Dan Suiter has a superpower: He can walk into a restaurant and tell if it has rats or roaches, just by the smell. “Rat urine is kind of pungent,” he says. “Roaches are more musty.”
Atlanta belongs to the roaches now. We merely live here.
Why are there so many roaches in my Atlanta house? It could be the weather. Or the trees. Or the fact that we—as Atlantans—are just screwed.
Welcome to Ratlanta: What to know about the rodents next door
Have you met your neighbors? Their names are Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus, and metro Atlanta is teeming with them.