Red Squirrel PEST?

It’s fun to spot wildlife on your hike through the forest.  If you’re lucky, you may get a glimpse of a red squirrel like this one.

A nut collector, Removing Red Squirrels can be an on going and messy clean up project!

Persistent with many brothers and sisters the red Squirrel can be a pest creating a big mess in your attic, out buildings … garden sheds.

Red Squirrel gestation period 35-40 days twice a year.  Each  squirrel will have  several nests. Female Squirrels will move their 1-8 babies between nests.

Red squirrels will nest close to their favourite pine tree and store food in one central place. Other trees with steady source of nuts like the black walnut, and oak are popular.

Pest removal service is great hand free option and should be considered for the spring and fall periods after the numbers of squirrels expand.

DIY Removal Service – have over a 20 red squirrels to be relocated? Then 1-2 spring traps can be bought from Amazon.

 

 

Forest Trees to be Cut Down

These Forest Trees have been tagged for cutting down.  Why you might ask?

These are ash trees and are subject to emerald ash borer infestation which kills the trees by getting under the bark. Cutting down the trees in the forest is a plan to control the spread of the emerald ash borer (EAB )infestation.