Wildlife Removal & Wildlife Exclusion

Solving human/wildlife problems in Palm Beach and Martin Counties

Jupiter Trapping is committed to providing you safe and effective solutions for your nuisance animal problems.  We can help with rat removal, bat removal, raccoon removal, squirrel removal, bee/wasp removal, bird removal, snake removal and attic cleanings.  We are family owned, licensed and insured, serving the Palm Beach and Martin Counties including Jupiter, Juno Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, West Palm Beach, Hobe Sound, Stuart & Port St. Lucie with 24 hour, 7 day per week service.  

Whatever your animal-related problem in your home or business, we can help!  A call to Jupiter Trapping is a call to an experienced professional who will investigate and identify the nuisance animal. We then outline the options available to ensure the safe and humane removal and relocation of the animal. Once the animal has been removed and relocated, we create a plan to ensure appropriate repairs can be made and the encroachment halted.

Jupiter Trapping can also help you with preventive inspections to ensure your home or business is not susceptible to animal entries.

If you've got wildlife problems call
Jupiter Trapping at 561-339-2029 or 561-741-7093
We'll be there shortly with a humane, effective solution!
 

Your Guide to Nuisance Animal Problems

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Armadillos & Moles Armadillos and Moles can be beneficial because they eat adult insects and larvae. But as expert diggers, their feeding behavior can cause serious damage to a lawn or a  landscaped area.  Armadillo burrows under driveways and patios can cause structural damage.  A single mole can turn a nice manicured lawn into a mess of tunnels and dirt piles. If they remove too much dirt from under a concrete foundation, the foundation faces the danger of cracking. Armadillos can also carry and transmit leprosy to humans. Many wild armadillos have been known to be infected with the bacterium that causes leprosy (Hansen’s disease).  We trap and remove problem armadillos and moles and remove them to a new home.  We will address prevention of new visitors.

Bats Florida bats are highly beneficial because they consume tremendous numbers of night-flying insects, including mosquitoes. Due to increasing urbanization, the number of these natural roosting sites has been reduced and window shutters, drain pipes, billboards, roof tiles, and attics have become popular roosting site substitutes. Their high mobility, broad distribution, and social behavior make bats favorable hosts of disease.  Due to the risk of rabies and also due to health problems related to their fecal droppings, bats should be excluded from inhabited parts of houses.  Bats can also cause significant noise when in high numbers. Once bats find a suitable maternity roost, they will stay there and each new generation will return to that same area. As bats can live up to 20 years, bat colonies effectively double in size each year that they are left ignored. Suddenly your small bat problem is a large one. An obvious sign that a bat colony has taken up residence is when bats are observed flying in and out of a hole in the structure. When a colony of bats has taken up residence in your house, we take care to remove 100% of the bats with no harm to these gentle and beneficial creatures. We ensure that they will not gain entry to your home again, and clean up the waste they have left behind.

Possums Possums become a nuisance when they move into urban areas.  When they live in or near inhabited buildings, the animal's smelly nesting habits and discharge of anal fluids cause offensive odors. Possums can damage buildings by pushing in screened vents or window screens, scattering insulation, and chewing electrical wiring.  Possums are carriers of many diseases: tuberculosis, relapsing fever, herpes virus, tularemia, salmonella, spotted fever, toxoplasmosis, coccidiosis, trichomoniasis, Chagas Disease, yellow fever, and rabies (rarely). Opossums are called generalists because they will eat just about anything they can find. This can cause problems in areas where humans exist, as possums will get into garbage cans, eat pet food and cultivated fruits and vegetables. They may prey on poultry and their eggs, and enter homes through ripped screens or vent and duct systems.  We humanely trap and relocate these animals.

Raccoons While homeowners many times find these animals cute, raccoons can create havoc around a household or business.  Strewing trash, tipping garbage cans, tearing screen enclosures, stealing pet food and prying open anything which might hold food.  Raccoons love water,  invading ponds and pools to wash and defecate, and to remove the ornamental fish.  They have no fear of entering homes in search of a meal, through pet doors and screens, and will  return again and again once they find a food source.   The two illnesses most commonly associated with raccoons are distemper and rabies, both potentially fatal and transmissible to pets.  Any raccoons seen in daylight hours is cause for concern. In urban and other areas where tree dens are lacking, raccoons choose a wide variety of "cavities" including rock and debris piles, attics, crawl spaces beneath mobile homes, culverts and sewer drains.  Female raccoons love to live inside of attics, where they will often bear and raise their young.  A raccoon in your attic can cause major damage. They will nest and bring in the food they have scavenged which will collect and rot. They will also leave waste material. Raccoon trapping can be done safely and humanely with traps that won't injure the animal.

Rats Mice and rats are undesirable in the home and business. Upon inspection we usually find droppings, urine stains and damage to wires & insulation - good reasons to eliminate these trespassers.  Their nesting burrows on the outside of a building are often along the foundation of walls. As the rat family grows, more burrows are built, resulting in a network of underground tunnels. Inside, rats commonly nest on the lower levels, but if the population is too large, they may be found in the attic and ceiling areas. They typically enter the walls through small openings adjacent to pipes or through compromised areas of the roof.  Many people get rats in their home. We deal with both major rat species: the Norway Rat, which tends to live at ground level and in the basement of your home, and the Roof Rat, which tends to live in higher areas, such as your attic. Either will infest the entire house at times, but we completely eradicate them using proven methods. Don't Use Poison: If you use poison in an attempt to control your rat problem, you are going to wind up with smelly dead rats in your house. Many people consider this odor worse than the original problem with live rats! If you have a rat problem, please call us for professional poison-free rat control. If it's too late, and you've already poisoned the rats, we can remove the dead one(s) from the house, and then take care of the remaining rat problem (the poison is never a permanent cure) properly.

Squirrels Squirrels can become a nuisance animal both indoors and outdoors.   While in search of food, squirrels can cause a great deal of chewing and digging damage.  Squirrels love to live in attics, since to a squirrel, an attic is just a big open tree!  They usually come into an attic or crawl space when an entry point to the outside is not repaired, either through neglect or by failing to notice it. Broken screens and roof tiles and gaps between the roof and wall are common squirrel entry points. Squirrels will often chew their way in, making large holes in the soffit, fascia boards, vents, or other areas.  They also chew once inside, usually on the woodwork and often on the electrical wires.  Once a squirrel has taken up residence in your home, it is hard to get rid of them. A squirrel in the attic creates a lot of noise and a big mess!   Parasites and fecal droppings are left in your attic, associated with Leptospirosis and Salmonella.  We humanely trap these difficult-to-catch animals and remove to a more squirrel-friendly environment.

Snakes Only six of Florida's 44 snake species are venomous: the eastern coral snake, the southern copperhead, the cottonmouth, the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, the timber rattlesnake, and the dusky pygmy rattlesnake. Most Florida snakes are harmless and beneficial and remove extra rodent populations. Even the venomous species are not particularly dangerous unless stepped on or otherwise provoked. Preferring to live under cover, snakes like the areas underneath raised foundations, porches, sheds and have even been found in the curled edges of flowerpots!  The frequent sighting of snakes near dwellings or out-buildings may indicate the presence of rodents. Removal of brush, lumber or other debris accumulations will discourage both rodents and snakes. Rodent food sources like chronically spilled bird seed under feeders or pet foods scraps should also be policed regularly.  Call us if you see potentially poisonous snakes on your property and we will trap and relocate them.

Bees/Wasps Causing unsightly hives or dirt cones and many times nesting in hard-to-reach eaves or attics, bees and wasps live in hives or colonies. A small hive contains about 20,000 bees, while some larger hives may have over 100,000 bees. The "killer bee" is actually a type of African honeybee which can now be found in South Florida.  These bees react very quickly, attack in large numbers, and swarm for long periods of time.  We can remove hard-to-reach nests or nests in attics and implement prevention tactics to eliminate future problems.

Ducks Another animal typically thought of as cute, ducks can become a nuisance to communities.  They leave fecal droppings on sidewalks and driveways, which can become a health related issue, and can be aggressive toward people and dogs.  Relocating these birds to a larger or more fowl-friendly community usually spells relief for you and the ducks.

Pigeons and Birds Not only are pigeon droppings unsightly, the uric acid (white material) can damage buildings, monuments, and the finish on automobiles. Rarely, human health problems are said to arise from exposure to long-standing accumulations. Birds can fly into homes or get into attics, and when birds occupy warehouses or stores they can defecate on stored goods, creating an expensive problem of contaminated goods. The most common problem associated with  pigeons nesting in buildings is bird mites invading the human occupied space during or after the nesting season. Pigeons have also been long associated with disease organisms transmissible to humans and livestock.  As well, the presence of pigeons where food is prepared or people eat - such as picnic areas and outdoor restaurants - should be a cause for concern about the spread of Salmonella bacteria.  Bird Removal can be done safely and humanely with traps that won't injure the animal.

Other Animals Unwelcome critters on your property can cause problems of many types.  Whether you have a stray cat problem, a large lizard bunkered down under your house, or gopher tortoises near your barn, we can help!  Skunks, encroaching bobcats, deer and foxes are all potential trespassers as our area becomes more and more urbanized.  If you're having a problem with a wild animal not listed on our website, give us a call. We can investigate the situation and probably help you. There's almost no wildlife problem that we can't address!  Sometimes it's a simple matter of trapping, but usually it's a matter of finding out the root cause of the problem and then eliminating it.  If you've got mystery noises in the attic, we will inspect the attic, look for the types of droppings, the odor, the type of tracks, and we will easily be able to tell what kind of animal has invaded your house. We then take the proper measures to trap and remove the animals, find out how they got into the house, and permanently seal off those points of entry. Call us with any variety of nuisance animal problem - we can solve it!

Animal Return Prevention One of the most important steps of a complete animal damage control project is performing repairs. If you've got animals in your house, such as squirrels in your attic, then you've got holes in your house that the animals can use to get in. Often, the animals are able to utilize several entry points - this is almost certainly the case with rats - and the only way to correctly and permanently solve such a wildlife problem is to perform a complete and detailed inspection of the building, and to completely and permanently repair and seal off any of these entry holes. Once the holes are shut, all future animals are blocked off, and the problem is permanently solved. No animal control project is complete without exclusion repairs.

Inspections/Building Cleanups When animals live in your house or attic, they always leave their waste behind - this means their urine, excrement, and body oils. They can also commonly bring in nesting materials, food, and parasites. Some of the waste can pose a real biohazard and health risk. If we identify that your home has been contaminated with animal feces or other byproducts, we can perform full home and attic cleanup and decontamination services. This not only destroys odor and keeps your home safe, but often goes a long way in repelling new critters that would otherwise be attracted to the scent of their own kind in your home. We start by inspecting the interior, making detailed notations of any chewed wires, urine marks, feces, nests, and torn air conditioning ducts which contaminate your living space. We will then inspect the outside of your home to determine any and all entry points. We will look on the roof for any holes the animal might have gnawed and check the soffits for any entry or exits. Remember you don’t just have critters living in your house. You have everything they bring with them, and everything they leave behind: disease, parasites, feces, urine, & anything else they brought into your home.

We also perform dead animal and carcass removal.

Jupiter Trapping is a professional wildlife removal company serving Palm Beach & Martin Counties.  Call us at 561-339-2029 if you have nuisance critters that you need to get rid of - we can humanely take care of the problem!  We provide pest control for wild animals only, not extermination of insects.