Service Description: Pests considered to be a risk to public health or food safety include rats, house mice, cockroaches and fleas. Pests that may become a nuisance in houses include a wide range of beetles, silverfish, earwigs and wasps. Environmental Health is not able to assist directly with pest control issues. Please refer to local resources e.g. Yellow Pages.
Also known as:- Household Pests, Mice, Rats, Wasps - Public Land
Answer: The majority of people who have gulls nesting on their property don't refer to them as herring gulls but as "seagulls" because most of us do not stop to differentiate between one type and another. But most species of gull do not nest on buildings though the herring gulls do so more commonly. The principal methods of deterrence are:- • Fitting of long spikes to nesting locations such as chimney stacks; • Fitting of short spikes, contained in a special plastic base, to nesting locations such as dormer roofs; • Fitting of wires or nets to prevent herring gulls landing; • Disturbance of nesting sites including removal of nests and eggs. Please contact Environmental Health if you have any further enquiries.