Have you noticed a hole in your roof, siding, or soffit? Your first reaction might be to call a contractor or tackle the repair yourself. Wait! Before dialing that number or grabbing your tool belt, contact wildlife professionals. Holes in your home's exterior could be animal entry points. Sealing these entries can have catastrophic consequences for the creatures and your home. Wildlife removal experts can remove animals, repair damage, and prevent their return.
This in-depth guide covers everything from recognizing entry points to understanding animal intrusions. Explore the benefits of using professionals over contractors for a more secure home. Here's when you should call wildlife removal services:
1. You Notice Roof, Siding, or Soffit Damage
Your roof, siding, and soffit protect your home's exterior. Siding protects against weather and insulates against heat loss. A soffit sits under the roof's overhang, connecting to the siding. These components form a barrier that blocks the elements, retains heat, and deters wildlife.
Damage to roofs, sidings, and soffits...
As a homeowner, the last thing you want is to wake up to mounds of sand and dirt plotted all over your yard. Small animals burrow in the ground, scurrying in tunnels and often ending up in your back or front yard. These pests can be hard to get rid of and may cause damage to your property and plants if you don't do something.
We will explore a few animals known for being offenders in Texas, their physical characteristics, diet, activity and how to stop them.
1. Armadillos
Although 21 different species of Armadillo have been identified, only one is found in the United States. The nine-banded armadillo calls Texas home and is at the top of our list of possible culprits who could be digging holes in your yard at night. Their characteristics include:
Physical attributes: These pre-historic, strange-looking critters are identified by their elongated armored bodies and diamond-shaped heads. They are quite fast for small mammals with seemingly heavy bodies and short, stubby...
While many common pests that make noise in your ceiling, attic and walls are nocturnal, some are diurnal, meaning they're active during the day. When diurnal pests are active in your home, you might hear scratching in walls during the day or at dusk or dawn.
It's important to know what to do if you hear scratching noises in your home during the day, and we've created this guide to help.
Why Do I Have Pests?
You may be wondering why your house has pests. Why did they target your home in particular and not your neighbors? There are several things that can attract pests to your home, such as:
Bird Seed and Other Feeders: Food left out in the open attract unintended pests that can smell the food around your home.
Garbage: Unsecured filled-up trash bags are a magnet for some pests.
Overgrown garden: An overgrown lawn is an open invitation to pests that might then move from your garden into your...
Texas is home to a wide variety of animal species. While some species are native to the state, others are non-native, invasive species. These invasive species can significantly damage the environment, threaten native species, and become a nuisance to homeowners. Similarly, although native species typically benefit the environment, they can damage property when they inhabit homes and businesses.
What Is an Invasive Species?
An invasive species is an organism that isn't native or indigenous to a specific area and is potentially harmful to that area. These species can harm an area's environment and economic health. A non-native species can be invasive or non-invasive, and it can arrive somewhere new accidentally or be introduced on purpose. For a non-native species to be invasive, it must behave in the following ways:
Adapt to a new area quickly and easily
Reproduce quickly
Cause harm to the economy, native animals and plants, or properties in the area
How Are Invasive Species Harmful to the Environment?
An invasive species...
Rabies is a serious disease that, if left untreated, can prove fatal for any mammal that has it. To help prevent you and your loved ones from contracting this fatal disease, you should be able to tell when a wild animal has rabies.
What Is Rabies and How Can It Affect Animals (And You, if Bitten)?
Knowing what rabies is and how wild animals get this disease is the first step to countering it. Rabies is a viral disease that affects the nervous system in mammals. It is most often transmitted by animals a few days before they die when their saliva comes into contact with another mammal's scratches, open wounds, or mucous membranes. Normally this is the final stage of rabies.
Saliva is the only way for the disease to travel from one mammal to another since the virus can’t survive in the open air.
When a human contracts rabies, they first experience an incubation period that can range from a couple of...
