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Critters in Tennessee

Middle Tennessee attics, crawls, and decks pull more than insects. Raccoons, squirrels, opossums, skunks, bats, and snakes are a different job than a Shield spray stop. Tap the animal that matches the noise, the droppings, or the hole.

Tap the one that looks like what you see

Raccoons

Gray-brown mask, ringed tail, dexterous front paws. Night workers. They den in attics, chimneys, and under decks when a kit is coming.

Gray Squirrels

The gray tree squirrel of Middle Tennessee. Bushy tail, daytime runner. They chew a soffit or ridge vent and nest in insulation.

Opossums

Gray-white fur, pointed face, hairless tail. North America’s marsupial. They play dead. They den under porches, sheds, and in crawls.

Skunks

Black and white. You usually smell them before you see them. They den under sheds, porches, and slab edges. They dig for grubs.

Bats

The common house bat here is the big brown. They roost in peaks, chimneys, and behind fascia. Guano piles under a roost. They are not flying…

Snakes

Middle Tennessee has rat snakes, garter snakes, kingsnakes, and copperheads. Most in a garage are rat snakes hunting mice. A thick hourglass…

Moles

The eastern mole. Velvety gray, hidden eyes, huge digging paws. Ridges and volcano mounds in a wet lawn. They eat grubs and worms, not your…

Armadillos

Nine-banded armadillo. Armor plates, long snout, night digger. They have moved into Middle Tennessee. They root cone holes and tear mulch lo…

Groundhogs

Also called woodchucks. Brown, heavy, short tail. They dig a burrow under a shed, porch, or foundation. Dirt fan at the hole.

Chipmunks

Striped ground squirrel. Fast. They burrow along a foundation, patio, and retaining wall. They stash seed in voids.

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