Increased crude stocks difficult to establish – Aftonbladet

Animals. Summer heat and picnic residues, the rats dance on the table. But even if the rats were perceived as more it is difficult to say if the stock has increased in Sweden.

Just as we humans enjoy the rats a little extra during the summer months. Especially noticeable in major cities such as Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

– We have an increase in our expressions solutions when it comes to rats, both indoors and outdoors, says Sven Jeppsson, pests techniques on Anticimex, during expression in Stockholm.

However, if the overall proportion of rats in Sweden has increased is hard to say, according to him. The feeling that there are more rats need not be synonymous with an increase in stocks.

Difficult to count

– Not even the best ecologists can say about the rats have become more, no knows exactly how many there have been. Rats are incredibly difficult to count, but observations indicate that there are more rats in which people find themselves, and that the contact to people has increased, says Tanja Beach, researchers at Uppsala University.

the summer is a peak season in terms of remediation of rats is not surprising. Some of our summer habits tend to attract small rodents.

Forced to move

– we are generally good in Sweden to keep the rats under control, we put food scraps and garbage in garbage cans. But rats are close to us all the time and during the summer we see more of them because we’re more and for example, we leave the leftovers for us when we have been out and had picnics, says Gert Olsson, wildlife ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

the fact that we disturb rats’ nests also affects visibility.

– Both in Stockholm and Gothenburg sees more frequently rats at ground level . Rats live preferably in the sewers, but with renovations and similar works are forced up. Then there are also guesses that the number of rats is more because of climate change, and when they thrive better, says Tanja Beach.

FACTS

Remediation of rats

2015 45 732

2014 37 146

2013 30 161

2012 37,430

2011 21 531

2010 22 613

2009 22 602

2008 24 528

2007 18 221

2006 14 571

number of expression provisions Anticimex made where the goal has been rats.

Source: Anticimex

28 July 2016 05:57