Professional Chipmunk Removal in Milwaukee, WI
Advanced Wildlife and Pest Control offers professional chipmunk removal services throughout Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin. Our certified wildlife specialists safely and effectively trap, remove, and prevent chipmunks from re-entering your home or business. We begin with a thorough inspection to identify signs of chipmunk activity, including droppings, nesting materials, gnaw marks, burrows, and potential entry points.
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Chipmunks are a familiar sight in backyards across Wisconsin. One common sign of their presence is disturbed flower beds and gardens. These small rodents are most active during the day in spring, summer, and fall. While chipmunks rarely enter homes, they often burrow under porches, patios, sidewalks, and foundations, which can lead to structural damage. Properties with bird feeders are especially attractive to chipmunks and squirrels, making these areas hotspots for activity.
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What Does a Chipmunk Look Like?
Chipmunks are small, ground-dwelling rodents weighing between 2 and 5 ounces and measuring 5 to 8 inches in length. In Wisconsin, the two most common species are the Eastern chipmunk and the least chipmunk. Eastern chipmunks feature reddish-brown fur with distinctive white and black stripes along their face, back, and tail, while least chipmunks have gray fur accented with yellowish-brown stripes. These agile rodents have short legs, bushy tails, and expandable cheek pouches, which they use to store and transport food.
Chipmunk Damage
Despite their small size, chipmunks can cause significant damage. Their burrows may undermine the foundation of your home, patios, and walkways, while gardens and landscaping can be harmed as they feed on bulbs, seeds, and young plants. In addition, chipmunks are known to chew on electrical wires and can carry parasites such as fleas, lice, and mites, posing both property and health risks.
Chipmunk Prevention
The most effective way to prevent chipmunk damage is by combining habitat modification with exclusion techniques. Installing hardware cloth around gardens and flower beds is a proven method, and burying it several inches underground helps prevent chipmunks from digging underneath. It’s also important to move or remove bird feeders away from your home’s foundation, as they attract these rodents. Our pest specialists can assist with professional rodent exclusion services, identifying and sealing potential entry points to keep chipmunks and other wildlife safely outside.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What do chipmunks eat?
Chipmunks are omnivores that feed primarily on nuts, seeds, acorns, fruits, flowers, and buds. They store their food in their burrows for the winter. Chipmunks will also eat beetles and grasshoppers.
Where do chipmunks live?
Chipmunks are found throughout Wisconsin. They live in wooded areas with plenty of shrubbery and ground cover to protect them from predators. Chipmunks den in trees, logs, brush piles, and the ground, creating underground burrow systems. In the winter, these rodents stay in their underground burrows along with food they have been gathering all year.
When do chipmunks have babies?
Eastern chipmunks breed twice a year, once in early spring and then again in summer. After a month of gestation, a litter of two to eight young are born in an underground den. The young are weaned at six weeks of age and leave the burrow for the first time. Chipmunks can live up to two years in the wild. Raccoons, snakes, foxes, badgers, and hawks prey upon chipmunks.
What does chipmunk poop look like?
Chipmunk droppings look similar to rat or mouse droppings. Chipmunk poop is about 1/2 an inch long with long, pointy ends. Chipmunk droppings are smaller than rat poop but larger than mouse poop. The poop looks like brown or black pellets.
What do chipmunk tracks look like?
Chipmunks have four toes on their front feet and five on their hind feet. Although difficult to spot, you may find chipmunk tracks in loose soil. The front print measures about 1/2 inch long, while the hind print is approximately 1 1/8 inch long. Chipmunks move by hopping and bounding, which creates a gallop pattern in their tracks. As a result of this movement, the hind prints appear in front of the front prints.
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