Squirrel Removal
Virginia Wildlife Removal is Virginia’s top Squirrel Removal agency. We perform hundreds of squirrel removals every year. We provide squirrel removal to following cities and their surrounding areas:
- Alexandria Squirrel Removal
- Centreville Squirrel Removal
- Culpeper Squirrel Removal
- Fawn Lake Squirrel Removal
- Fredericksburg Squirrel Removal
- Gainesville Squirrel Removal
- Great Falls Squirrel Removal
- Herndon Squirrel Removal
- Lake of the Woods Squirrel Removal
- Manassas Squirrel Removal
- Reston Squirrel Removal
Squirrels are usually classified as a pest species due to their habits of living in houses. The most common complaints include the following:
- Squirrels living in the attic
- Squirrels living in the chimney
- Squirrels chewing on woodwork
- Squirrels stealing bird seed
- Loose squirrel stuck inside home
For these reasons, many people wish to have this nuisance animal trapped and removed.
SQUIRREL BIOLOGY:
Squirrels are usually gray, sometimes red, brown, or black. Adults average about one pound in weight. They can supposedly live for up to ten years,
but life expectancy in the wild probably isn’t more than 3-4 years. Squirrels give birth to two litters per year – one in late summer, and one in winter. The female gives birth to 3-4 young after a 44 day gestation, and the young grow quickly, and are weaned in about ten weeks.
SQUIRREL BEHAVIOR:
Squirrels are most active in morning and evening. Squirrels eat mostly nuts and seeds. They live in a variety of habitats, both forest and suburban or city areas. They establish home
territories, and often communicate via scent, chattering, and flickering of the fluffy tail.
NUISANCE CONCERNS:
Squirrels love to live in attics. They also love to chew, and will chew on houses or wires, ducts, pipes once inside an attic. People don’t like the noises of squirrels running about above the ceiling or in the eaves, but it’s really the chewing that’s a problem. If squirrels chew on electrical wires in an attic, it can create a real potential fire hazard. Squirrels also bring in nesting material and leave urine and feces in an attic.
SQUIRREL DISEASES:
No real important diseases, though they do carry parasites, and thus are vectors for the diseases that fleas, ticks, etc can transmit. They also leave a lot of droppings, which posethe usual excrement health risks, such as leptospirosis or Salmonella
