The Green Advantage is your resource for managing wildlife. Raccoons getting in your garbage? Groundhogs digging under your concrete? Squirrels chewing through your siding? Opossums making a home of yours? Bats spending the winter in your attic? Birds nesting in your entry way?
With the most qualified and experienced pest control technicians available, you can rest assured you are in good hands. Not only can we advise on how to avoid these issues, you can feel good that the situation has been handled by professionals in a legal and humane manner.
We all love nature and we all love the cute little critters….until they get too close for comfort. Wildlife can cause insurmountable damage to your home, businesses, and assets. Some examples of problems associated with wildlife are:
1. Raccoons – When raccoons get comfortable around people, their fear of humans dissipates. Once they have entered a home, the chances they will do so again is extremely likely. They will wreak havoc on lawns, turning your pride and joy into their tasty buffet. When cornered, they are no longer that cute little bandit, instead they are defensive beast that will stop at nothing to get free.
2. Groundhogs – Burrowing in the ground is where they naturally make their homes. Unfortunately, concrete makes a perfect shelter for the roof of their new home. When excavating the base of your slab, cracks and breakage are inevitable. The repairs typically require mud-jacking or repouring; these can be costly endeavors.
3. Squirrels – Masters of stashing food for the offseason, structures make a convenient hiding spot. Squirrels have multiple places they hide food for the winter, so many in fact, they often don’t remember where they all are. Once they get into an attic, they typically find alternate entry points. If an entry point is blocked, they will make another; especially on buildings sided with wood.
4. Opossums – Like raccoons, get more and more comfortable around humans. These opportunistic omnivores make a field day of your trash. They also love taking advantage of all the hard work you’ve done in your gardening project.
5. Bats – Known for taking advantage of your warm attic to spend the winter, it is not uncommon for bats to get comfortable in the summer as well. They also love nooks and crannies all over buildings and under eaves.
6. Birds – Beautiful and majestic when in their natural habitat, birds are known disease spreaders. Most don’t know that this is where west nile virus originates, birds carry it, mosquitos spread it. Also known to spread e-coli and others. This is in addition to the mess their nests leave all over your home, and the mites that survive long after they are gone.
7. Skunks – Need I say more.
All of these are known for bringing other pests (fleas, ticks, mites, and lice) and carrying disease (distemper, rabies, leptospirosis, tuberculosis, and many more). Many of these risks don’t go away immediately after animals are removed, often disinfection is necessary to mitigate these risks.
Fortunately, NWI’s most qualified and experienced pest control operators are trained and ready for all of these situations. We are the solution to legal and humane wildlife management.
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