Identify burrowing animals and surface foragers through visual damage analysis. Implement effective, step-by-step exclusion strategies and natural deterrents to protect your lawn and hardscaping from moles, voles, raccoons, and other disruptive wildlife.
Raccoons absolutely hate the sharp, burning scents of ammonia, peppermint oil, and cayenne pepper. Because they rely heavily on their sensitive noses to forage for food, these intense odors overwhelm their olfactory receptors. Placing ammonia-soaked rags near trash cans or spraying a concentrated peppermint oil solution around your deck creates an invisible, highly irritating barrier … Read more
Stop wasting time with sonic spikes and homemade pepper sprays. To get rid of voles quickly, you must combine immediate lethal trapping in their active runways with targeted rodenticide baits inside tamper-proof stations. Reduce your lawn’s thatch layer and clear dense mulch away from tree trunks to remove their cover. Voles reproduce every 21 days; … Read more
Chipmunk damage appears as clean, 2-inch-wide burrow holes with no dirt mounds around them, usually located near structural foundations, retaining walls, or tree roots. These rodents uproot flower bulbs, steal birdseed, and build complex underground tunnel systems that can ultimately compromise the structural integrity of patios and walkways over time. Identification Guide You need to … Read more
The most common animals digging holes in your yard are skunks, raccoons, moles, and voles. If you wake up to find shallow, cone-shaped holes across your turf, it’s almost certainly a skunk or raccoon hunting for grubs, whereas raised ridges and volcano-shaped dirt mounds point directly to underground mole activity. Identification Guide: Who Is Wrecking … Read more
