Wildlife and Nuisance Animal Control

Innovative Pest Management provides professional animal control, trapping, eviction and exclusion services in the Greater Akron area, including:

Squirrel Trapping and Control

Squirrels are small, furry rodents who become a nuisance when they get into attics, soffits, and other areas of buildings. They can cause damage through their gnawing activities, including creating a fire risk when they gnaw through the insulation on wires. They also contaminate buildings with the shed hairs, urine, and droppings, and the parasites they carry can transmit many serious arboviral diseases.

Raccoon Trapping and Control

Raccoons are intelligent, medium-sized mammals who frequently become a nuisance when they take up residence in attics, chimneys, sheds, barns, and other homes and buildings. Raccoons are stocky, powerful animals who can become aggressive and cause serious injury if approached. They also have a high incidence of rabies, and their parasites can vector many serious diseases. Raccoon control usually is accomplished by trapping.

Bat Control

Bats are primarily beneficial mammals because they consume countless insects during their nightly flights. They become a nuisance when they nest in attics, barns, bell towers, soffits, and other parts of buildings. Their guano (droppings) contain disease-causing organisms, their parasites can transmit serious diseases, and the bats themselves have a high incidence of rabies. Bat control is accomplished primarily by exclusion.

Bird Control

Three species of birds are considered "pests" and may be controlled at will: Pigeons, starlings, and sparrows. Other species, such as geese, are considered "nuisance wildlife" and may be controlled using different methods, when necessary. Birds become pests when they exist in great numbers where they are not desired, when they cause damage or defacement to buildings or statuary, when their droppings create a health hazard around human-occupied areas, when they clog air intakes for home or industrial ventilation systems, or when they create a hazard to air navigation.

Mole Control

Moles are small, burrowing mammals who become pests when their burrowing damages lawns or gardens. They are particularly destructive when they infest golf courses, athletic fields, and other recreational or ornamental lawns. Mole control is not dependent on insect control, as was once believed. A mole's diet consists primary of earthworms, and the single effective, EPA-registered mole bait on the market is Talpirid.

Chipmunk Control

Chipmunks are small, ground-dwelling squirrels with tan and brown bodies and stripes running lengthwise down their bodies. They become a nuisance when they are present in large numbers, when they dig up gardens or lawns, or when they gnaw on electrical and other utility cables (especially those connected to air conditioning compressors, generators, and other outdoor equipment). Control is accomplished by trapping.

Vole Control

Voles are small burrowing mammals who are commonly known as "meadow mice" or "field mice," but they're not really mice. They become a nuisance mainly because of their burrowing activities, which create unsightly runways in lawns and garden areas. They also occasionally get into homes and other structures, where they usually are mistaken for mice. Control is primarily by trapping and exclusion.

Shrew Control

Shrews are tiny rodents with long snouts and dark-tipped teeth. They are primarily carnivores in nature but will feed on almost anything, including insects, grubs, earthworms, small birds, eggs, fish, human garbage, bird seed, pet food, and small rodents. Their high metabolism and endless feeding activity causes them to consume far more food than one would expect from such a small animal. They also leave a strong odor wherever they travel which can become quite unpleasant when they get into homes and other buildings. Shrew control is accomplished primarily through trapping and exclusion.