Skunks can cause damage to lawns and gardens as they dig for grubs and other insects. While usually docile, skunks can spray their pungent secretion up to 20 feet when startled. Keeping skunks out of ...

Here’s how to keep skunks away from your home and garden. Skunks are easy to identify from appearance—and smell! But these handsome mammals typically mind their own business and are more interested in ...

You can determine the source of holes in your yard without mounds by inspecting the damage and watching for animals. Insects like grubs, wasps, and bees could be the source of this damage. Animals ...

It’s not unusual for skunks to make or use an existing burrow in wooded areas or create dens underneath porches or outbuildings. Skunks are omnivores and will eat just about anything they can find, ...

Today is Groundhog Day. Thinking about the critter Punxsutawney Phil letting us know if we are in for six more weeks of winter, Phil brings to mind another small critter — the striped skunk. While ...

As students settle into the rhythm of the first fully in-person semester in nearly two years, an unlikely population has also joined them in their return to Brown’s campus: Mephitis mephitis, or the ...

Most New Englanders have had an interaction with a skunk at some point in their lives. That includes my 2-year-old Golden Retriever-Irish Setter mix, Rowan. He met his first skunk recently, and while ...

DEAR JOAN: Can you advise on how to get rid of skunks and raccoons, short of trapping and releasing them elsewhere? These pesky critters hang around my yard. Mr. Skunk eats the cat food, if we leave ...