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Groundhog Trapping in Cherry Hill, NJ
A groundhog under a Cherry Hill shed is an excavation project wearing fur: a single burrow system can move several hundred pounds of soil from beneath a slab. Here's how we trap them humanely, why the burrow itself is the real problem, and what closure costs in this town.
Short answer: Acorn Wildlife live-traps groundhogs from Cherry Hill yards with daily-checked traps, then closes the burrow and installs a buried barrier so the next groundhog can't reopen it. The big lots and mature gardens of Barclay Farm and Woodcrest, plus the Cooper River banks, keep this town supplied with diggers.
This page covers the Cherry Hill side of the job. The full trapping method, burrow anatomy, and prevention guide are on our groundhog trapping in South Jersey page, and everything else we handle locally is at wildlife removal in Cherry Hill.
Big Lots, Old Gardens, and a Riverbank Nursery
The damage pattern here is structural more often than botanical. A groundhog digging under a shed slab or stoop removes the supporting soil, and we've inspected Cherry Hill sheds sitting visibly tilted over a burrow. The burrow signature is unmistakable: a main entry the size of a grapefruit with a fresh dirt apron, plus one or two hidden exits without dirt piles, sometimes ten feet away under a shrub. Those hidden exits are why plugging the obvious hole never works, and why our closure work maps the whole system before anything is sealed.
Short answer: Cherry Hill's 1960s neighborhoods were platted with generous yards, and sixty years later Barclay Farm, Woodcrest, and Downs Farm are full of vegetable gardens, established sheds, and open lawn edges, which is a complete groundhog habitat kit. The Cooper River banks act as the nursery that restocks the town every summer.
The Cherry Hill Season to Watch
Late February and March, when males emerge and travel yard to yard looking for females, is when a burrow suddenly appears next to your foundation. April and May bring pups, which changes trapping timing: we confirm whether young are mobile before removing an adult female. By late summer the year's juveniles disperse from the river corridor into new territory, and August is our second-busiest groundhog month in town.
A Recent Groundhog Job in Cherry Hill
A Downs Farm backyard with a raised-bed vegetable garden: beans mowed to stubs overnight and a fresh burrow under the shed, main entry on the lawn side and a spy hole hidden inside the compost corner. Two covered traps on the travel path between burrow and garden, baited with cantaloupe, and we had the adult by day three. We then excavated both entries, packed the tunnels, and trenched hardware cloth around the shed perimeter in an L-shape a foot down. Garden replanted, shed level, no return.
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Humane trapping, full burrow closure, barriers that keep the shed level.