I’m pretty sure that their nests and young are right downtown as well, and you’re probably seeing “babies” all the time, but you just don’t know it. By the time baby pigeons are fledged and are out and about, they are full grown and look and act just like mom and dad. PIGEON YOUNG GROW
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We know that raccoons do sometimes get into homes, holing up in chimneys or attics, and often requiring professional removal. Did you know that it’s not an unusual occurrence for a raccoon to literally fall through a ceiling into a living space? Now that would wake you up! Gates Wildlife, a company in Toronto, has
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Did you ever hear the term “urban wildlife?” No, it doesn’t mean rockin’ inner-city nightclubs. Urban wildlife refers to animals other than domestic pets and livestock that occasionally find their way into your yard, and sometimes stay. Animals like raccoons, opossums, skunks, woodchucks, and of course the wildlife that seem to be in residence all
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When we are treating around the outside foundations of homes as part of our Preventative Maintenance Program, it’s not unusual to find poison ivy in our customer’s yards, sometimes growing right up against the house or even hiding in among the ground cover plantings. POISON IVY IS AN ADAPTABLE MIMIC Few people seem to recognize
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We live in Barrington, New Hampshire, do you know if we have chipmunks in this area? We have a section of an old stonewall in a back corner of our property and we had noticed a couple of holes along the base, then my wife saw what seemed to be a chipmunk there. We’ve never
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I need someone that can get rid of a pest woodpecker. We have this one rogue woodpecker that seems to be going nuts pecking at the railings around our backyard deck. He has left several big, ugly holes in the top of the railing. Can you help? Y. L., Sharon, MA There is a valid
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According to the news reports, the guy really didn’t like those opossums that were always in his backyard, their hissing and barring of teeth gave him the creeps. He decided to try to drive them away for good by smoking them out. He fixed up a pile of leaves, lit it with his butane lighter,
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Do you have someone on your staff who handles nuisance birds? My wife and I own a small sandwich shop and we have some kind of birds building nests behind the sign on our building wall. There’s several of them and they’re making a mess of the wall and the sidewalk. Can you move them
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The National Pest Management Association has rolled out its “Bug Barometer” to make its regional pest predictions for the coming season. And…drum roll, please…the prediction for the Northeast is for a bad tick and mosquito season! Ta-dah! According to NPMA, (1) the unseasonably warm winter could mean that fewer ticks died from extreme cold, and
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