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- Remove piles of trash, lumber, or building materials or store off the ground. These can serve as shelter for rodents.
- Seal your building, including any holes or cracks in foundation or around doors.
- Close openings into buildings around water pipes, electrical wires, vents and doors with mesh hardware cloth and/or sheet metal.
- Put mesh hardware cloth over vent stacks on roof.
- Store garbage outside in covered containers.
- Pick up fruit on the ground.
- To prevent squirrels from getting into buildings, encircle trees and poles with 2-foot-wide metal collars 6 feet off the ground; trim trees to prevent them from jumping onto roofs; and close openings to attics and eaves of houses and buildings with heavy ½-inch wire mesh or sheet metal.
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