Squirrels
Although most squirrels are welcomed in parks and around the yard, they are a pest inside your home. As wooded lots are cleared, tree squirrels are displaced from their natural habitat and forced to find new homes. If conditions are right, they will move into attics, eaves, and soffits of any structure. Once inside the structure, they will cause damage to insulation, rafters, and electric wires.
WHY ARE THEY IN MY HOME OR YARD?
1. Be careful of bird feeders. People love to watch birds and a properly placed bird feeder adds so much to any landscape. However, it also calls the local squirrels to your property. Over time, squirrels will learn where the food is coming from and soon they will want to move inside your structure.
2. Cut away all branches, which are hanging over your buildings. Any tree, bush, or shrub, which is close to, your building is a route of entry and needs to be cut back. Small shrubs and bushes are not bad but tree limbs, which hang over, or within twenty feet of your roof is a definite route of entry. Squirrels will use this route as a way to get onto your roof. Once on the roof, these pesky wildlife will discover a way into your attic.
3. Install gutter guards and either cover all down spouts with screening or connect them to corrugated pipe, which is buried. Tree squirrels will access your roof from climbing up through down spouts. Once they get to the roof, they will crawl through your gutter and gain access to your attic by squeezing into a crack, which is common between the fascia board and the roofing