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Find out how you can control pests on your property - help from professionals, methods you can and cannot use, protecting wildlife, getting a wildlife licence
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
Your local council may help you get rid of common pests in your property like mice, wasps and bedbugs with pest control services
Contact your council to find out if they provide pest control services to remove pests like wasps, rats, mice and bedbugs
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
Find out what you can do to prevent or help minimise the introduction, establishment, spread and impacts of tree pests and diseases in the UK.
Identify, report, prevent and minimise the introduction, spread and impacts of tree pests and diseases in the UK.
Which chemicals you can use in or near a bat roost and what you need to know before you use them.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for integrated pest management.
Classical biological control is the introduction of a natural enemy of exotic origin to control a pest, aiming at permanent control
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
Find out about the SFI actions for integrated pest management, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.
How to prevent the introduction and spread of animal and bird disease by following good hygiene and biosecurity standards.
How to control rabbits on your property or business using traps, snares and other methods.
How to deal with wild birds causing a health or safety issue, or a problem on your farm or fishery and when you need a licence.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
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