Living next to the reserves
Surveyors Creek
Penrith City Council describes Glenmore Ridge as a vegetation corridor from Ridgetop Drive to Gunyah Drive, with an easy walk along the creek. If your fence backs onto a corridor like that, possums will treat it as a road.
Mulgoa Nature Reserve
From Eliza Place Bushland Reserve you can walk across Sir John Jamison Circuit into the reserve, 213 ha created in December 1994. NSW Health says ticks are common in bushland and long grass along the east coast, so check yourself and the kids after a walk, especially after rain.
Water at home
Blue Hills Wetland gets the attention, but Penrith City Council says larvae need only small amounts of stagnant water. Blocked roof gutters, pot plant drip trays and anything holding rain are the spots it tells you to clear.
Viruses in the traps
NSW Health's 2024 to 2025 trapping found viruses at Sydney sites including Penrith. That's a mosquito trap result, not a count of people who got sick, and a pest business can't prevent disease. NSW Health is the place to watch.
Possums, and the ringtails in the boxes
Penrith City Council said in October 2023 that its 34 habitat boxes across eight reserves were being used by sugar gliders and ringtail possums, among others. Ringtails live almost entirely in the trees. The one thumping in your roof at night is more likely a brushtail.
Both are protected in NSW. Catching one takes a licence, and it has to be let go at dusk within 150 metres, near something it can climb. Close the way in only when you're sure it has left for the night. There's more in possums in Sydney.
Worth a call now
- Mud tubes on a brick pier or along the slab edge. Leave them undisturbed.
- Soft skirting boards or door frames with no obvious cause.
- Droppings in a cupboard, or scratching in the ceiling at night.
- Wasps going in and out of one gap in the ground or a wall.
Where we'd start with pests in Glenmore Park
Clear the gutters and drip trays before summer, then look along the back fence for anything stacked against it. If you're on a bush edge and it's been a while since a termite inspection, we'd book that next.
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