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Nutria Control and Information
Northwest Nuisance Wildlife Control traps, removes, manages and
controls most animal species, including nutria.
Trapped Nutria |
Our nutria control services
include the removal and
control of problem nutria from wherever they are causing problems. Here
at NNWC, we are finding more and more nutria in the Puget Sound areas
around Lake Washington. They were once here back in the 1970's
and 1980's, and then gone around 1985.
Nutria started
showing up again in the same areas in 2005. They have been seen
in Lake Union and are found in Lake Washington.
We
have seen quite a bit of damage from this critter already. Our
control programs for nutria are both non-lethal and lethal.
When
lethal control is used, we follow the rules and guidelines stated by
the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. Nutria are not
native to the State of Washington.
NNWC and Nutria in the News
Destructive Nutria showing up in more local lakes
December 24th, 2007
Experts
say Nutria, a type of rat that can be very destructive to vegetation,
are showing up in lakes on the eastside in the Puget Sound area. KING
5's Bernard Choi reports.
Click here for the King 5, News for Seattle, video.
October 23rd, 2008 - Some very wild neighbors have moved into a boathouse on Lake Washington. KING 5 Environmental Specialist Gary Chittim shows how quickly animals can make themselves right at home. Click here for the King 5, News for Seattle, video.
Nutria (Myocastor coypus) The
nutria is a large, semi-aquatic rodent (in the mouse family) that is
dark in color and sometimes mistaken for a beaver or
muskrat. Nutria are members of the
Myocastoridae family.
Nutria are approximately 24
inches long with a round tail length of approximately 15 inches.
While average weight is about 12 pounds, nutria can grow to 20 pounds.
Nutria have dense grayish underfur and long dark brown guard
hair. Like beavers, they have large, webbed back feet and
smaller front feet. They also have four large incisors that are
yellow-orange in color like beavers and other rodents.
Nutria
are opportunistic feeders and eat approximately 25% of their body
weight daily. They eat roots, rhizomes and tubers of water plants,
bark from trees such as willow, lawn grasses and bushes along
waterfronts. They also eat and damage crops along waterways,
ditches, creeks and streams, and also burrow into dikes causing
extensive erosion problems.
Nutria
breed at least three times a year; late winter, early summer and
mid-autumn. Females become sexual mature at 4 months of
age. Gestation is 130 days and litters range from 1 to 13, with an
average litter of 4 to 5. Nutria live less than 3 years in
the wild.
Our Nutria Control Programs consist of non-lethal and lethal
control methods.
For professional nutria
trapping, removal and control, call the experts at Northwest Nuisance
Wildlife Control.
(360) 794-3535 or Toll Free at
1-888-868-3063
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