“People have got lots of rice and pasta and they’re putting it in places where they wouldn’t have stored food before -- the under stairs cupboards, loft spaces, places like that," says Peter Higgs, who runs PGH Pest Control.
"Because they’ve got so much of it, vermin are going to get in - and a lot of the time people won’t notice.
Over just three weeks, panic-buying Brits hoarded an eye-watering billion pounds' worth of extra food over coronavirus fears, but now they are serving up an unprecedented banquet for rats, mice and ants.
Stockpiling throughout the lockdown has another problem for attracting pests -- we're all creating more household waste because people have been buying more fresh food than they can eat.
And the problem of rubbish piling up outside our homes is made even worse by councils cutting back on bin collection services during the pandemic.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11285014/rats-ants-mice-stockpiling-panic-buy-coronavirus/
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