The Secrets Of Flying Squirrel Removal 2011
No better topic then Flying Squirrels to get a few NWCO’s to discuss their flying squirrel removal techniques.
November 20, 2011Paul Antzak, of Knoxville , TN, Clay Oren of Nashville, TN David Mcleod of Atlanta, Ga and David Schmidt of St Louis Mo got together with Robb Russell of Gainesville, Florida shared inspection techniques and seal up techniques for the infamous, nocturnal are rarely ever seen and photographed in the wild, the Flying Squirrel.
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The basic idea is to find the main entryway and put a one-way door over it. Then seal up the rest of the house. For flying squirrels, you want to seal up all holes bigger than your thumbnail and any linear crack wider than your pinky finger. You can use any type of barrier, but the key is to use something that they cannot get through. Remember that bats will not chew to get back in the way a flying squirrel will. I have heard that “flyers” will not chew through barriers or electrical wires. That is false: I have seen them chew to get back in, and I have seen them chew electrical wires just like corn on the cob. However, they chew in such a hyper state that they never sit still long enough to make it through the wire like mice or red and gray squirrels will.
Attention to detail is crucial. You can seal up an entire house and leave one small hole in the hardest-to-reach spot and they will find it. During an exclusion, when they first go out of the one-way door and then can’t get back in, flying squirrels start to search the entire roof line for another way back in. The lowest point I have found them to re-enter is from six feet above the ground.

