Top Rated Woodchuck Removal Massachusetts

Woodchuck are active during the spring, summer, and fall. Winter season they are in hibernation. Once march arrives woodchucks will be seen early for breeding purposes then back to hibernation until the weather breaks. Once warm weather in April or may strikes they are back at it. Digging up yards to expand their tunnel systems, raising their young and invading peoples gardens. We offer trapping and removal services and long term exclusion services to keep them from under structures. 

 Woodchucks mate in March and April shortly after emergence from hibernation. They can first breed as yearlings (i.e., in their second summer), however, only 20–40% of female yearlings do breed. The tiny, feeble young are born in the burrows after a gestation period of 30–32 days. The litter size averages 3–5 pups, which emerge from the den at about 33 days and are weaned at about 42 days. Woodchucks are typically daytime animals. During most of the year, their activity peaks in mid-morning and again in the late afternoon, but declines at midday. Early and late in the season they may be active only in the afternoon. They enter hibernation in late fall and emerge in early spring. Their home range is determined by food availability, but is typically between .75–2.25 acres. Home ranges of adult males may overlap those of females, but usually not those of other males. Woodchucks disperse from their birth area when less than 1 year old; females traveling about .25 of a mile and males slightly less than a mile. Woodchucks are quite wary and remain on the alert around their burrow entrance and while feeding.