rodent
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has cited Lineage for unsanitary and nuisance conditions related to rodent and pest control violations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The search for the rogue rodent has also inspired amateur trackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Earlier research had indicated that ancient strains of Yersinia pestis lacked some of the genetic features that later allowed bubonic plague to spread efficiently through fleas and rodent hosts.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
The club's nickname 'Los Tuzos', translates to 'the gophers', referring to a burrowing rodent found in North and Central America and serving as a nod to their mining heritage.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
The dead rodent reminds me that it’s a school night and I should be home by now, sleeping in my vanilla rotten-corpse room.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
The rodents have scent glands on their feet and trample on their droppings to mark their territory.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Instead, they mark the rodents with dye and call them things like "dans_hat", "open_kite" and "Citroën".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Of those responding to the survey, 76% reported an increase in the number of flies; 35% noticed an increase in the number of rodents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Due to the sentimental nature of the Chipmunks and the rocky licensing history, Bagdasarian and Karman have held tight to the IP, keeping the rodents off the big screen for more than a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
She listened to rodents crawl through the weeds.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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