“It’s very worrying because this ‘hybrid-resistance’ means that some common rodenticides simply won’t work to control rat numbers, this together with a bumper breeding year means that Edinburgh is in for a heck of a ride in 2021 if we don’t have a very, very cold winter”, explains Jenny Rathbone from Edinburgh Pest Control Company .uk. Edinburgh set to find out what Covid level it will be in for Christmas and New Year next weekĬonditions for breeding this year have been described as a "perfect storm", with the research showing this is the first time the hybrid-rats have been found on this scale in the UK.Woman charged after 73-year-old targeted in alleged attempted robbery outside Harry Potter cafe.
One of the city's biggest pest control companies has now said that the rats have mutated a new resistance gene which makes them immune to the usual rodenticides.Ī huge year for breeding has also meant that the estimated rat population is now 1,094,541, which is pretty much two rats for every one person in Edinburgh.
As the second biggest city in Scotland, Edinburgh is not immune to a variety of different pests.īut now as it seems, the pests themselves may be immune to Edinburgh, as a new study has shown around 70 per cent of its rats are not responding to popular pest killers.
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