{"id":60043,"date":"2024-09-24T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T22:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60043"},"modified":"2024-09-24T18:53:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T22:53:54","slug":"did-you-know-230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2024\/09\/did-you-know-230\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/September-24-2024-Did-You-Know-PHOTO-jpg.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60044\" style=\"width:521px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Did you know that a pest-control company has released its list of the 50 most rodent-infested cities in the U.S., and seven Florida cities managed to find a place on it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According the company, Terminix, toping America\u2019s number one spot for rodents is [not shockingly] New York City, followed by number 2, San Fransico-Oakland area, and third-Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What may be surprising however for many Floridians, within our state, Tampa-St. Petersburg placed highest ranked at number 17. The Orlando-Melbourne metro area came in at number eighteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not much further behind and ranked at number 22, is the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area. Nearby West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce area found itself at number 42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next ranked Florida area is Pensacola which was tied with Mobile, Alabama ranked number forty-four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Myers found itself ranked at 48<sup>th<\/sup> and Jacksonville at number 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terminix suggested the following to help keep rodents such as mice and rats from invading your home:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Seal possible entry points, such as cracks and openings near doors, windows and foundations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep living spaces clean and remove crumbs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Regularly dispose of garbage in tightly sealed bins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Organize cluttered storage areas to limit possible nesting sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that a pest-control company has released its list of the 50 most rodent-infested cities in the U.S., and seven Florida cities managed to find&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60045,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60043\/revisions\/60045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}