As part of the pest eradication programme, Cockle Bay School is setting out pest ID tunnels to see what animals are visiting our school at night, when it is quiet and we have all gone home.
The Junior Science Club set one up by the worm farms and found evidence of rats visiting the area 'after hours'.
We have since set rat traps. Mrs Taylor's trap caught our first rat after only one week! Rats enjoy eating peanut butter or nutella, so we baited our traps with out of date expired spreads to make them irresistible to pests!
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| A ribbon on a tree marked the location of our pest ID tunnel. |
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| We observed evidence of a snail visitor on the black ink floor of the tunnel. |
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| These inky footprints on the exit of the tunnel tell us a rat had been visiting. |
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