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Field notes
This is a seasonal trade and most of what goes wrong is predictable from a calendar. These are the dated notes — what is happening right now, and what it means for the month ahead.
- Green bin rules and rodents No Collingwood rule names rats or mice. The County's green bin rules still decide whether your food waste feeds them. The five that matter, read for rodents. Read it →
- Signs you need pest control One animal is not an infestation. The evidence that means something lives in the building, from a harbour house to a farm edge to a closed chalet. Read it →
- Rat control A rat problem is a perimeter problem. Why the trap you set caught nothing, what a rat survey walks outside the building, and the order the work goes in. Read it →
- The late-August bat window The maternity window closes at the end of August and the best exclusion weeks follow immediately. Why escarpment properties book them out early. Read it →
- Closing a seasonal property The worst infestations we find are in buildings opened in April that closed in October. Why seasonal exclusion belongs in late summer instead. Read it →
- February cluster flies Hundreds of slow flies at an upstairs window in February came in last October. Why there is no winter fix, and what to book for September. Read it →
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Talk to a Collingwood pest control company
Tell us what you have actually seen and where, and roughly when it started. That is usually enough to say whether you are looking at something we should be at this afternoon, something that wants a booking, or something where the honest answer is to wait — bat exclusion in July being the clearest example of the last one.