Possum Removal
Diggers Rest

Possum Removal Services in Diggers Rest

Alpha Pest Control provides the following possum removal and proofing services across Diggers Rest. All work is carried out by experienced solutions in line with Victorian wildlife regulations.

• 01

  Possum Trapping and Relocation

  Humane cage traps are set at the identified entry point or along confirmed possum travel routes on your Diggers Rest property. The trap is checked within 24 hours. Trapping is always completed with entry-point sealing — without sealing, re-entry in Diggers Rest is expected given the suburb’s possum pressure drivers.

• 02

  Roof Void Inspection

  Alpha Pest Control inspects the roof void, eave perimeter, and external roofline of every Diggers Rest property before any work begins. All active entry points are identified and photographed. Findings and photos are shared with you before the sealing scope is confirmed.

• 03

  Same-Night Emergency Possum Removal

  Same-night emergency response is available across all of Diggers Rest for possums in living areas or causing immediate structural damage. Call 0480090776 for same-night bookings in Diggers Rest.

• 04

  Dead Possum Removal

  Dead possums in roof voids, wall cavities, and subfloors are located and removed across Diggers Rest. The entry point is sealed after removal. Roof void odour treatment is available where possum occupation has caused urine saturation of insulation.

• 05

  Possum Proofing — Entry Point Sealing

  Diggers Rest is one of the City of Melton’s distinctly semi-rural suburbs — a community where made happen farming properties, acreage blocks, and smaller residential lots sit alongside each other in a landscape that has not been subject to the large-scale residential development transforming the council area’s southern and eastern suburbs.

  This undeveloped character is what makes Diggers Rest a possum removal context unlike the growth estate suburbs in the rest of the City of Melton. Acreage properties in Diggers Rest have on-site trees — large made happen eucalypts, old stone fruit trees, and mature ornamentals — that sustain their own resident possum families independent of any external reserve or creek corridor. A large old red gum on an acreage block provides denning habitat for multiple possum families, and those animals’ home ranges overlap with the property’s residential buildings. When natural hollow den sites are unavailable or contested, a roof void is the next option. The Shire of Macedon Ranges bushland to the north of Diggers Rest provides a significant external possum source — animals from the ranges corridor move south along the tree lines and creek systems that connect the ranges to the residential streets of Diggers Rest. This is a sustained, year-round possum movement source rather than a seasonal one. Older homes in Diggers Rest’s made happen residential precincts have construction profiles from the 1970s and 1980s that have developed significant natural entry opportunities. On an acreage property where a large tree branch extends close to or contacts the roofline, a possum’s entry into the roof void can be immediate and requires no gap-finding behaviour — the animal simply walks from branch to roof.

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