Cooler temperatures are on the way, and while we’re ready to welcome fall, there are a few seasonal visitors you probably don’t want to welcome into your home.
Fall is an important time for pest prevention in North Carolina.
As temperatures begin to drop, mice and rats start looking for warmer places to find food and shelter, making homes and businesses particularly attractive. Clegg’s notes that rodent activity typically increases during the fall as cooler weather pushes them indoors.
🐭 Small Pests Can Create Big Problems
Mice and rats can enter through surprisingly small openings around your home. Once inside, they may settle into attics, crawl spaces, walls, garages, and other undisturbed areas. Beyond simply being unwanted guests, rodents can contaminate food and cause property damage by gnawing on materials such as wires and insulation.
Keep an eye out for droppings, nests, chew marks, or scratching and scampering noises inside walls or ceilings, all of which can indicate rodent activity.
Rodent droppings found along the floor near a potential entry point.
🐿️ Wildlife Wants Somewhere Warm, Too
Rodents aren’t the only animals that may see your home as a cozy fall retreat. Clegg’s wildlife team handles nuisance wildlife including squirrels, bats, raccoons, opossums, snakes, and more. Attics and crawl spaces can be particularly inviting when animals are searching for shelter.
Scratching noises, damaged soffit or fascia, displaced screens or vents, nesting material, or other signs of animal activity in your attic or crawl space shouldn’t be ignored. Clegg’s wildlife experts can locate unwanted wildlife and provide removal and exclusion services to help address the problem.
Clegg’s team member Allin Baldridge removes attic insulation contaminated and damaged by wildlife.
🪲 And Don’t Forget the Stink Bugs!
If you’ve ever wondered why stink bugs suddenly seem to appear around your windows and doors in the fall, you’re not alone. Clegg’s seasonal pest guide specifically identifies September through November as the time when stink bugs become a nuisance, alongside increased mouse and rat activity.
The goal is to stop these fall invaders before they make themselves at home.
🍁 Get Ahead of Fall Pests
A little prevention now can save you from unwanted surprises later. Clegg’s offers pest management solutions tailored to each property, including rodent control, general pest control, and nuisance wildlife services.
Hear scratching? Found droppings? Noticed an unexpected visitor in the attic? Call Clegg’s and consider it done.
Schedule your Free Exclusion Inspection today to determine all entry and exit points underneath and around your home that need to be sealed. Exclusion services add an extra layer of protection to keep unwanted pest invaders from entering your home.